"Legal Complications"
If there is legal reasons to not award people under the age of 17 with rewards and such for doing good, then the law is wrong. But then again, this is the "nanny state" where we write laws to protect people from themselves, and in the name of "protecting the children". These laws fix outlying problems at the expense of everyone else.
And remember...this is Germany, where 16 is the legal age for getting a job.
run afoul of child labor laws
Was Paypal employing him? Did they have any prior contact with him? Have they ever paid him money before?
If people aren't allowed to buy things off minors then the Girl Scouts of America are completely screwed.
Who said anything about a contract? Why would you need one, are there any intellectual property rights on a vulnerabilities/bugs? Does he need to sign the ownership rights over to them so they can collect royalty payments from people who exploit it?
He reported a vulnerability, they acknowledged it exists and that he's reported it to them.
They're not employing him or entering into an ongoing business relationship with him, they need to STFU and give him his money as promised.
It seems obvious to me, but if Robert Kugler is too young to receive the award
Is there an age restriction on owning money?
I'll try to remember that the next time I see girl scouts selling cookies.
And I'll notify the authorities immediately if I see any kids mowing the neighbors lawn. It's my moral duty.
2K??? Only a young whippersnapper would think 2K was restrictive.
PS: Back when it was called the ZX81 it only had 1K and the display could take 768 bytes of that. People still managed to program it...
if the VM has a full root account, with a network address on the global network at large, then it has the ability to, for example, run a priviledged NMAP scan on the entire network. Which can expose open ports or vulnerabilities on another machine that can then be used to leverage access.
Try reading the third line of the summary again. The bit where is says "segregated LAN" might interest you...
You know how I know you didn't even read the summary...?
All of that applies to non-virtual machines, too.
Unless they take down the network, e.g. running a rogue DHCP server. Or they use it to hack other systems on the network, e.g. password-sniffing the other student's credentials when they log in from their VMs.
So... nothing they couldn't do much easier/more safely by just pulling the network cable out of the physical machine and connecting it to their netbook?
Why would you have an account on a student's VM?
The whole point of a VM is that being root isn't a safety concern.
Funny how TFA uses it as an example....
I never knew "R2" means anything
Please hand in your geek card and remove slashdot from your bookmarks. Thankyou.
I live in Spain and see a lot of dubbed movies and sometimes the Spanish/English dialog is completely different.
It took me a while to figure out why, ie. because some Spanish translations have simply too many syllables to fit. When this happens they rewrite the dialog to fit.
Also anti-buffered, eg. when the Siberian permafrost melts.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -- Isaac Asimov
