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Submission + - MS Explorer Abandonded and Sinking (www.ctv.ca)

Submitted by Ambush on Saturday November 24, 2007 @06:31PM

Ambush writes: The MS Explorer, a small Canadian cruise ship carrying tourists from 14 nations ... struck a chunk of ice before dawn Friday. Twenty hours later, it sank in Antarctic waters. I think I have a new desktop background.

Submission + - Skype-Linux reads /etc/passwd and firefox profile! (skype.com)

Submitted by

mrcgran

on Saturday August 25, 2007 @05:19PM

mrcgran writes: "Users of Skype for Linux have just found out that it reads the files /etc/passwd, firefox profile, plugins, addons, etc, and many other unnecessary files in /etc. This fact was originally discovered by using AppArmor, but others have confirmed this fact using strace on versions 1.4.0.94 and 1.4.0.99. What is going on? This probably shows how important it is to use AppArmor in any closed-source application in Linux to restrict any undue access to your files."

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