Re: Security, Linux and the Roving Bug

"CptDondo" <yan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:13885j98uu1do0b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cassandra wrote:
>
>>
>> This issue is about a bug in Linux.  This is about a known bug in Linux
>> that's been hanging around for months.  It is a bug a known bug in
Linux
>> that's been hanging around for months that has not been fixed.  This is
>> about a security hole in Linux.  Windows is not the issue here.  This
is 
>> a Linux
>> problem and not a Windows problem.
>>
>>
>
> Huh?

Duh. Read it again Einstein.

> It seems to be more a bug in the cell-phone protocol/hardware. Or
possibly 
> a hardware mod to the cell phones.  I can well imagine the cell phone 
> companies would have a way to update the firmware in your phone
remotely.
>
> Nothing to say that it's due to linux being on the phone.

Then read it again.


> The only reason it's not *also* a windows problem is that windows can't 
> possibly run on a cellphone....

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/articles/AT2468909181.html

Do you have any other clueless comments you'd like to make Cpt Dungo?


> As to the "horror story" - why don't they get a prepaid phone?
Because prepaid phones suck.

> Or do  away with cell phones altogether?
Sure. And let's do away with electricity too.


> Or stuff the damn things into a sock while they're not using them? 
> Christ, people used to live their whole lives without cell phones.
And people used to live their whole lives without air travel or cars. So 
let's all go back to riding donkeys and living in caves.





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