I just ran the script on OSX Mavericks with all updates and I get the following:

shell$ env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c 'echo hello'
vulnerable
hello
shell$

Have some fun with the numbers. You can assume that some of the recipients will still have your number in their phone so when you call them they will think it is the previous owner.

Some ideas:

- Pretend you're an emergency worker and there has been a serious accident
- Pretend you're previous owner's boss/teacher and enquire as to why you saw them working at a brothel
- Pretend you're the police and the phone is evidence in a murder investigation.

Notes:
- for best results it's best to do some background checks on the previous owner. Send SMS messages in different tones to different numbers to ascertain what gender and age group the previous owner fits.
- don't actually do this (but if you do, post your results)

Then apple know you don't want this shit on your phone - or in your cloud:

https://getsupport.apple.com/C...

What is the point of this minimalistic approach to UI elements these days. We all have computers capable of displaying millions of colours yet we have UI designs that are more plain than a blank piece of paper. Perhaps they know that after WWIII we will all be using C=64 or (insert 80s tech here) and the minimal approach will be necessary.

Where I would spend my weekends hacking on the Linux kernel to get my hardware working, or building the latest release of KDE or Gnome or FVWM or (insert incomplete OSS project here). I also remember the days when all of my hardware would stop working as a newer kernel was pushed down the update pipe. But I most fondly remember the day I turned on my new Mac and realised that this is what Linux has wanted to be for so many years.

Instead of copying the processes of Windows, with its fundamental differences, why not focus on copying the processes of OSX (I know I'll probably be shot right now).

To quote a friend: "It can be said that when a Linux user/hacker switches on a Mac for the first time, they say a silent prayer of thanks - this is what they have been looking for all of those years"

For those who don't want new hardware but want something that they can continue hacking away with half complete drivers, have a look at the good work done by the hackintosh community - it is what got me to the point of buying a Mac.

My wish is simple, that I had the foreknowledge to see that this once art form would become the lowest level in the IT universe. Programmers are the only people who can produce the product and they make is seem easy - therefore everyone who cannot program thinks it's easy and expect everything to be done in 20 minutes.

We were once the masters of the black arts of computing. Bending this strange hardware to our will with nothing more than a few commands (or a few thousand), and now we are nothing more than cattle being forced to rapidly spew out hack upon hack in order to push the next bullshit feature into a product that is held together with sticky tape and a bunch of #ifdefs. We are never given time to craft a response to the problem given to us, it's all just hack it up and we'll fix it next time. It's always next time. When will next time finally become this time?

If I knew how shit it would be, I would have thrown away my c64 and my VZ-300 and played in the garden with friends.

We have no fucking idea, but keep giving us money. Thanks

If they want a congressman they're heading in the wrong direction. As this stuff may be able to think for itself.

Everyone's ass looks different to their face (well for most people this is true)

Let's just fuck with the environment a bit more - nothing bad can happen. Why doesn't he attempt to stop tidal flows eroding our coastlines with 1000 foot walls. In fact why not stop the planet from spinning all together.

Snowden isn't the problem, the US government's insistence it is under attack from everyone and its belief that it needs to monitor everyone is the problem.