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Hackers exploited Word flaw for months while Microsoft investigated

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Re: Hackers exploited Word flaw for months while Microsoft investigated

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Post by shakna »

flukus wrote: post #65
shakna wrote: post #53

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> Neither of those solutions are user friendly are they? Neither is Windows. [0] Changing a login screen is a bit of a technical thing, for technical reasons. Maybe it could be better, but at the moment, everyone sucks equally. > I haven't seen anything to indicate what login manager I'm even running, where is this information displayed? Most distros use systemd nowadays, so this is something that is becoming easier:…

Thanks. Systemd is one of those things that's changed since I last ran linux so I've got a bit of learning to do there. Turns out ubuntu gnome is running gdm, which isn't surprising. > I'm guessing the partition type is NTFS, so try ntfs-config. Ext4 actually, windows has never touched this machine :) I did the fstab thing (I think) on the last install but this is getting beyond my comfort zone. > Neither is Windows.…

> Systemd is one of those things that's changed since I last ran linux so I've got a bit of learning to do there.

Not kidding. Its one of those things that can run half the system, so its unsurprising to not know much about it. However, at least we have a consistent way of managing things now.

> Ext4 actually, windows has never touched this machine :) I did the fstab thing (I think) on the last install but this is getting beyond my comfort zone.

Yeah, this might be getting difficult.

We used to have pysdm, but that's out of date now, and doesn't even support UUIDs, so it won't help.

I think gnome-disks (which is GUI-based), might have a chance at helping, but we're running into the technical side of Linux that I wish was easier to manage for the average person. (You can install gnome-disks with apt-get install gnome-disk-utility if it isn't already installed).

However, it might just have the same issues as the volume manager.

Wish I could help more, but I don't know enough about what's going wrong for you.

> And the login menu is at the resolution of the last user.

Thankfully, that's an easy thing to do with Linux, thanks to symbolic links. [0]

But I agree, defaulting to a lower res would be so very helpful in situations like this. Hopefully this story gets better soon.

[0] https://askubuntu.com/a/578153

Re: Hackers exploited Word flaw for months while Microsoft investigated

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Post by goodplay »

kobeya wrote: post #99
goodplay wrote: post #98

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> meant I'm sure as hell not inventing something new if it sets me up for civil liabilities. And I'm arguing that not doing so might be a good thing. I shudder to think how we'd be off if other infrastructure disciplines took the same approach we take to develop software. If you build something that people use in important infrastructure, prepare to be on the hook if it fails.

So if you write some toy PID controller for your kids LEGO project and post it to stack overflow, should you be held liable for all the places it is used?

I don't think a person should be held liable in this case because the solution was clearly labeled as a toy, and not as a serious solution.

If this person presented it as a real solution, however, then yes I believe he should be held liable, as much as a lawyer would be for recklessly giving out legal advice.

In either case, The developer who built upon the solution without validating it or verifying its correctness should bear most of the blame, regardless of how the answer was given.

Re: Hackers exploited Word flaw for months while Microsoft investigated

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Post by davidgerard »

jmcdiesel wrote: post #97
davidgerard wrote: post #94

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Windows : Not Ready For The Desktop https://andrewhickey.info/2012/04/07/windows-not-ready-for-t... Most Windows users never install Windows.

No, they chose to buy a computer with windows on it... And an article starts with complaining that its not free (money) and not open source - it makes it very clear the level of bias right off the bat.

It's a commentary on presumptions. Did you seriously fail to realise this?
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