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Submission + - "Bad Taste" vulnerability in GNOME: VBscript injection 1

Submitted by KiloByte on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @04:19PM

KiloByte writes: A new vulnerability, named "Bad Taste, allows arbitrary code execution via the GNOME thumbnailer if you make any GNOME component that displays file icons see a crafted .msi file in a directory you're browsing.

The vulnerability can be triggered only if you have Wine installed, but it comes as no fault of the latter: GNOME misparses file names into a well-formed VBscript invocation.

Submission + - Wikipedia to censor images (wikimedia.org) 1

Submitted by KiloByte on Friday August 19, 2011 @06:45AM

KiloByte writes: To appease "morality" watchdogs, Wikipedia is contemplating introducing a censorship feature, where images are marked as containing sexual references, nudity, "mass graves", and so on. At least in the initial implementation, it is supposed to be "opt-in". However, with such precedents as UK censoring artistic nudity, Turkey censoring references to the Armenian genocide or China to the Tianenmen massacre (note that any sensitive photos like the Tank Man are already absent!), I find it quite hard to believe this feature won't be mandatory for groups of readers — be it thanks to an oppressive government, their ISP or school.

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