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Comment Re:How is SQL involved? (Score 2, Informative) 186

On the server end there is a SQL injection exploit being used to get the malicious code out there.

My point being that you don't need to do a SQL injection to do this.

To prevent a SQL injection, you need to change ' to '' on input from the user that you pass to sql.

To prevent a HTML+script injection, you need to change < to &lt;, > to &gt; & to &amp; etc. on input from the user that render to the browser. The sites in question are not doing this, hence, just stick the code you wish to inject into at comment or some other user field. This has nothing to do with SQL.

Comment Re:Cue postgres fan bois (Score 1) 334

The old Enterprise Manager had a feature that I used to use a lot. You could open a query designer. "Design" a select query (typically add a where clause or possibly a join and a where clause on the joined table.) Execute the query, check the results. Then you could change the query type, to a delete or update statement. If you had multiple tables, it would prompt you on which table you wanted to change. It would keep the rest of the query (from, where, etc.) in tack. I can't figure out how to do this in the new Server Management Studio - frustrating.

Comment Re:Focus on quality? (Score 1) 461

I'll bet you forgot to tell them that a few months down the road he will have no way to install an up-to-date application unless he updates the whole system. And that he will have to update (aka reinstall) the whole system every few months, since thats the usual duration his applications officially are up to date.

I don't know about SuSe - but for Ubuntu - LTS releases are supported for 3 years. And if he wants to just update 1 application - he just needs to add the backports repository.

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