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A nasty local kernel vulnerability

A nasty local kernel vulnerability

Posted Feb 26, 2013 17:24 UTC (Tue) by gowen (guest, #23914)
In reply to: A nasty local kernel vulnerability by PaXTeam
Parent article: A nasty local kernel vulnerability

An apology? ok. I'm very sorry for not being convinced that you're not the same person.


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A nasty local kernel vulnerability

Posted Feb 26, 2013 17:40 UTC (Tue) by arjan (subscriber, #36785) [Link]

as having someone who has interacted with both Spender and PaxTeam, I can say that they are certainly not the same person.

I've in the past clashed with PaxTeam on issues at times, but I do respect his technical ability greatly; he/she does not deserve this thrashing in this forum, even if the communication style is a bit brisk.

A nasty local kernel vulnerability

Posted Feb 26, 2013 18:26 UTC (Tue) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

The one statement does not imply the other. Perhaps there are other reasons though.

A nasty local kernel vulnerability

Posted Feb 26, 2013 22:03 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

One of the unfortunate consequences of posting in a style guaranteed to offend people and piss them off is that one will offend people and piss them off. Wishing that this didn't happen will not change it: one cannot reprogram the social instinct of everyone with whom one interacts. Eventually, PaXTeam may learn this (or start to care that it happens and dooms him to perpetual Cassandrahood), though I don't hold out much hope.

A nasty local kernel vulnerability

Posted Feb 26, 2013 22:53 UTC (Tue) by PaXTeam (subscriber, #24616) [Link]

it probably wouldn't hurt if you studied http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias a bit ;).

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