Security quote of the week

Posted Sep 30, 2022 2:49 UTC (Fri) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359)
In reply to: Security quote of the week by linuxrocks123
Parent article: Security quote of the week

Trojan "source" is really a problem of the text editors, not the languages, so I agree.

I don’t know the other thing, but then, I don’t use these “AI” things either.

Security quote of the week

Posted Sep 30, 2022 13:32 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah, the whole thing does not sit right with me. The authors' insistence on assigning blame for a car crash to the house with skid marks in its front garden just leaves the whole thing smelling like an attempt at beg bounty scalp collection that happened to get lucky with its SEO.

Security quote of the week

Posted Oct 4, 2022 0:44 UTC (Tue) by bartoc (guest, #124262) [Link]

esp given this paper, which makes it feel like they _know_ it was a "unique" opportunity _because_ it was a common non-bug that everyone had to patch anyway to avoid bad press.

Given how editors displayed the syntax I think it was a real bug deserving of fixing, but the whole circus surrounding it left a bad taste in my mouth nonetheless.