The current panic underscores it as well - first people underreact and now they are overreacting.
The shwinesflu scare a couple of years ago may also be an explanation for the initial under-reaction...
"politic" meaning roughly in the original Greek "To shout down"
Bullshit. The word "politic" is derived from "polis", the Greek word for "city". So "politics" is the art of running a city (or city-state, as most cities were back then), not the art of shouting your opponent down...
Oh I had the same thought....I mean, by the time an "attacker" is modifying arbitrary environment variables in your process,
Which is the case on most Apache Web server configs: the client has full control over the HTTP_REFERER and HTTP_USER_AGENT variables... And the exploit in question works with any environment variable, including those 2.
Well, starting from here, you are vulnerable as soon as:
The problem affects any CGI that *calls* bash, which means any call to system() in any language is going to cause a problem.
Nowadays, on most systems,
Just ran pacman -Syu
$ env x='() {
bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt
bash: error importing function definition for `x'
this is a test
Good. And now on to the next level:
env X='() { (a)=>\' bash -c "echo
Captcha: Pervert
Well, actually, there's plenty of sex shops around where you can buy custom-molded dildos, sold by the pound of plastic or latex... (saw some in Brussels, but most likely other large cities have those too).
Indeed, google is notoriously hard to reach...
...when the police starts rounding up board members...
For not replying to an e-mail? I'd only wish
The court, not being stupid, will probably send a few "canary" emails.
The court, while certainly not stupid, is very probably lazy. And won't continue bothering google out of its own initiative once a "settlement" is reached.
It will take a continued action by the consumer watchdog organization to keep the court interested, but it's a very fine line to walk between "keeping the court interested" and "not annoy the court by pestering it too much"
If Google decides to discontinue all Google services in Germany as a result, would that really be a "win" for the German consumer?
More likely outcome is that they change the auto-reply text of the mail to "thank you for your valuable feedback", and then still continue to ignore it. The customer will be none-the-wiser, and unable to prove that feedback gets ignored.
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?