Homeland Security finds flaw in X11

http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20060502/tc_zd/177195

The DHS actually does something! It found a pair of missing parenthesis on a line that checks the uid and euid. Hey, it compiled!

uagh. Yahoo calls this a "Linux bug"...
This only affects recent Linux or similiar desktop systems... which is by far not the majority of Linux boxen...

Yeah, the question must be asked... Who runs X on a server?

windows admins forced to use linux

I guess that makes sense because nearly everything in Windows must be configured by a gui. I like text file configs, to a point.

At least they can find flaws. It is open source after all.

Exactly, the DHS should be happy about that. With windows, for all they know only Microsoft and Al-Quida know about the backdoors.

One of the reasons that China is picking Linux over Windows is just that reason. We'll they don't trust the US company actually.

It is funny how both countries do business and don't trust each other. Funny stuff.

Yeah well wasn’t there a Chinese spy in the US government a few years ago that was stealing secrets for 20 or so years and sending it back to China.
nuclear secrets no less

There are secrets?
40kg 99.98% with 8kg trinium, compress at 12,000kg/c^2 and detonate at ground level.
There aren't many secrets regarding weapons, a refinement process here, compression efficiency there, but, really, even Kim Jong Il know how to make a bomb. Apparently everyone not currently a terrorist finds it a minor freakin' deal.

There are no secrets, just hidden tidbits of information waiting to be found!