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Thanks, I did not know about that kind of worms or about the Welchia worm.

Good point. So I guess one would have to combine that with another vulnerability to be able to get root privileges. We could also imagine a worm contacting the owner of the server …

Since we know that it took weeks before most servers were fixed from the Heartbleed vulnerability, couldn't we use Shellshock to make a worm that would upgrade bash wherever it can…

I don't want you to listen to my arguments, I was simply answering to your question about stats. I have often found out that convincing people that didn't want to be convinced took…

Why I don't understand when I read your comment is the generalization over "men". These articles are not about how each and every single man harrassed, raped or killed a woman. It'…

Not everything in life can be apprehended through stats, and sometimes we should be able to simply acknowledge the fact that others are having a hard time because of the way we're …

I think we should treat someone that's receiving death and rape threats on a daily basis differently than someone who does not. That we should treat someone that's more likely to b…

Your comments in this thread are about dismissing the message of the article, by reversing the roles (you talk about men being "harassed" by this article), by using rhetoric analys…

I haven't been reading HN for that long, but I'm rather impressed that this thread didn't get that much similar comments. I think it shows community maturity and also that these su…

If you consider an object as something to be acted upon, of the 4 ways of representation you cited, only the first usually applies. Other ways of representation, in the examples I …