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mysidia

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Ron Davis

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    Comment #39882824

    It's standard autoconf stuff, BUT... the right thing to do for a security option should be to throw an error at the configure stage If the Option is requested but can't be supporte…

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    Comment #39872279

    It's worrisome for sure.. the original maintainer mentions longterm mental health issues, "but also due to some other things" My worry would be "other things" they didn't mention c…

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    Comment #39869510

    The other thing besides the autoconf soup is the XZ project contains incomprehensible binaries as "test data"; the "bad-3-corrupt_lzma2.xz" part of the backdoor that they even put …

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    Comment #39869386

    Still.. At this point the default assumption should be every commit is a vulnerability or facilitating a potential vulnerability. For example, change from safe_fprintf to fprintf. …

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    Comment #39869116

    Consider the possibility those type of submissions were part of the adversary's strategy in order to make their account appear more legitimate rather than appearing out of nowhere …

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    Comment #27266174

    Lasership, Inc. v. Watson. Found a NDA unenforceable because the term was indefinite that the court deemed to be an unreasonable term for the agreement - It is important that contr…

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    Comment #21325060

    If you rent the backhoe... make sure you call before you dig and don't cut one of my fibers, please.

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    Comment #21324865

    You can use financing arrangements to avoid dropping the money all at once -- for example: A service provider offers you a monthly subscription or "lease-to-own deal" where you sig…

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    Comment #12549844

    The thing is the AHCI interface is native to Intel chipset, so they had to do some sort of extra work to block access to enable it...... They provided a new proprietary storage int…

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    Comment #8375207

    Perhaps he didn't deliver the point... but BASH is not a good or safe language to write to. Writing to '/bin/sh' is understandable due to its ubiquitousness. Bash is a superset tha…