GerbilSoft - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Of course they don't have plans. (Score 1) 123

by GerbilSoft on Wednesday May 14, 2008 @06:57PM (#23411308) Attached to: Microsoft Says No New Xbox 360s In 2009

"It's possible you'll be able to purchase a USB accessory to connect Gamecube devices to."

Nintendo can't even emulate N64 memory cards. What makes you think they'll be able to emulate GameCube memory cards and controllers over USB? (Also the fact that the Wii doesn't support use of e.g. the Classic Controller in GC mode.)

Submission + - Hushmail giving 'The Man' your private PGP keys 1

Submitted by

teknopurge

on Friday November 16, 2007 @01:26PM

teknopurge writes: "Apparently Hushmail has been providing information to law enforcement behind the backs of their clients. Billed as secure email because of their use of PGP, Hushmail has been turning over private keys of users to the authorities on request. Yet another reason to use private hosting."

Submission + - Samsung Linux Drivers Have Major Security Hole

Submitted by GerbilSoft on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @09:46PM

GerbilSoft writes: It seems as though Samsung's proprietary Linux printer drivers have a major security hole. From the Ubuntu Forums:

Just to inform you about a recent post on the french Ubuntu forum about Samsung drivers (sorry, in french). It appears that Samsung unified drivers change rights on some parts of the system: After installing the drivers, applications may launch using root rights, without asking any password.

What is more, you may be able to kill your system, by deleting system components, generally modifiable only by using sudo.
Among the programs that it sets as setuid-root are OpenOffice, xsane, and xscanimage.

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