Heise reports from SCO Forum
Heise reports from SCO Forum
Posted Aug 19, 2003 14:53 UTC (Tue) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)In reply to: Heise reports from SCO Forum by mk270
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Are you sure that's not delibrate obfuscation, by someone who isn't very technical in nature?
Would someone please type the entire Greek paragraph in and give us a font mapping? Something that demonstrates how the font is mapped back, so that there is a trace from the SCO slide to real code, would be useful. I could really use this for a news editorial, and have no idea how to type in Latin.
Bruce
Posted Aug 19, 2003 15:00 UTC (Tue)
by laurent (guest, #7539)
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--- snip ---- "As part of the server evolution towards modular naming, Does this mean something to someone? Why bother writing it with greek I hope I'm not infringing on any copyright by copying this here :-)
Posted Aug 19, 2003 15:02 UTC (Tue)
by forthy (guest, #1525)
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Posted Aug 19, 2003 15:09 UTC (Tue)
by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
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Sure. It looks as though they just switched the code in question into the standard "Symbol" font:
Posted Aug 19, 2003 15:13 UTC (Tue)
by allesfresser (guest, #216)
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Posted Aug 19, 2003 15:25 UTC (Tue)
by rknop (guest, #66)
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Skylarov was jailed for breaking encryption of similar security, under the DMCA. Those of you who changed the Symbol font back are in fact now federal criminals under USA law. You may wish to flee this free country now. -Rob
Posted Aug 19, 2003 15:59 UTC (Tue)
by allesfresser (guest, #216)
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Posted Aug 19, 2003 16:35 UTC (Tue)
by rknop (guest, #66)
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The only way to be safe is to cut it off and destroy it before the feds look at you. (And, yes, the DMCA really is that silly.) -Rob
Posted Aug 19, 2003 19:24 UTC (Tue)
by tjc (guest, #137)
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I've got a parser in my head, and I'm getting a syntax error on line 2 of the second slide.
Posted Aug 19, 2003 16:08 UTC (Tue)
by gups (guest, #14053)
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That's funny.
Posted Aug 19, 2003 16:16 UTC (Tue)
by shadowman99 (guest, #14165)
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By changing code in an effort to obfuscate they have done the very thing they accuse our community of. Bonk Bonk on the head!
Posted Aug 19, 2003 18:14 UTC (Tue)
by mmarq (guest, #2332)
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With the "criminal" minds that are feading SCO more than clue cards, its no wonder!... What is not good, is that they can predict Linux/OSS movements... I belive a "REALLY BIG PUSH" to LSB to completly cover the Desktop, would suprise and scare them to dead! If all this sound to you as nosense, than you better think again, because you are confused about how "fox smart" business minds work.
Posted Aug 19, 2003 18:44 UTC (Tue)
by dbhost (guest, #3461)
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"Everything's legal in Mexico. It's the American way!" If I have misquoted, or given credit to the wrong mouth that uttered that wisdom please correct me...
Posted Aug 21, 2003 7:19 UTC (Thu)
by bajw (guest, #11712)
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From LinuxToday... (credit Fred Flintstone)Heise reports from SCO Forum
Very clever of SCO to obscure part of their comments with greek
letters. Someone might never figure out that it says:
the functions malloc and mfree are being renamed to rmalloc
and rmfree. Compatibility will be maintained by the following
assembled code: (also see mfree/rmfree below)"
letters?
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Ok, here it is in ASCII/latin1: Heise reports from SCO Forum
"As part of the kernel evolution towards modular naming, the
functions malloc and mfree are being renamed to rmalloc and rmfree.
Compatibility will be maintained by the following assembler code:
(also see mfree/rmfree below)"
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Would someone please type the entire Greek paragraph in
*As part of the kernel evolution toward modular naming, the
*functions malloc and mfree are being renamed to rmalloc and rmfree.
*Compatibility will be maintained by the following assembly code:
*(Also see mfree/rmfree below)
All they did is to change the font to Symbol. (Why? I have no idea...if they were trying to keep something secret, did they think no one could read those funny foreign letters...?) Or maybe now they'll sue all of us who read and transliterated them under the DMCA for encryption-breaking...
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That's not a joke.Heise reports from SCO Forum
I guess I've got an illegal decryption device embedded in my head then... I just read the text as it was. (Thanks to whoever made the Symbol font for making the transliteration pretty easy!) How am I supposed to keep from violating the DMCA with such an embedded technology...? No, don't answer that. :-)
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By trafficing in your head, you are a federal criminal.Heise reports from SCO Forum
I guess I've got an illegal decryption device embedded in my head then...Heise reports from SCO Forum
Hahahaha...Heise reports from SCO Forum
Actually I would think SCO would be in trouble with the DMCA before anyone for violating copywrite law by changing the text as originally written. They have moddified the character set without permission of the author.Heise reports from SCO Forum
So besides a Diversion, all this show could be a trap to !!!...Heise reports from SCO Forum
to repeat a quote I have heard attributed to Krusty The Clown from The Simpsons while in Mexico.Heise reports from SCO Forum
I did a Google on the phrase, and the results showed that the phrase wasHeise reports from SCO Forum
"Hell, everything's legal in Mexico. It's the American Way." Google also
indicated that it was said by Uncle Jimbo of Southpark.
