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Submission + - Red Hat issues urgent alert for Fedora Linux users due to malicious code (betanews.com)

BrianFagioli writes: In a recent security announcement, Red Hat’s Information Risk and Security and Product Security teams have identified a critical vulnerability in the latest versions of the “xz” compression tools and libraries. The affected versions, 5.6.0 and 5.6.1, contain malicious code that could potentially allow unauthorized access to systems. Fedora Linux 40 users and those using Fedora Rawhide, the development distribution for future Fedora builds, are at risk.

Comment Re:Of all the idiotic... (Score 1) 154

I'm convinced our sense of pain and pain management is totally fucked.

It's beyond fucked. I don't know how this happened but I think the Bush & Obama Administrations seem to get off awfully easy when it comes to throwing blame around...

That, and medical school and medical industry dogma. It isn't even coherent anymore.

Happy suffering!

Comment Re: Of all the idiotic... (Score 1) 154

The designer fentanyl won't have FDA approval and so won't be useful for legitimate medical need.

That's not how it works. Many if not all of those fentalogues are no doubt useful for legitimate medical need, whether or not the FDA has given them their blessing or not. The entire class of strong opioids already have legitimate medical uses. What separates what you're considering "legitimate" from what you don't is a handful of agencies all beset by corruption and politics and regulatory capture and all of the sorts of things regulatory bodies are prone to.

In the UK, heroin is used legitimately for medical use. What's makes it not legitimate here?

You have a child's understanding of medicine and pharmacology. Your conflation of the terms "useful" and "legitimate" is demonstrative of your muddled reasoning. Stay out of this and let the grownups talk.

Comment Re: Of all the idiotic... (Score 1) 154

Different "flavors" could be released and anyone with a vaccine against one "flavor" could just switch to another.

None of these are wise, of course. Immunosuppressants would obviously lead to a strong possibility of infections. Injecting right into the brain also creates a strong possibility of infection as well as being dangerous all around. The multiple versions of fentanyl approach can have the same problem as the bath salts, which is unpredictable effects. While it turns out that the guy who ate someone's face was just crazy and not actually on bath salts, they do have all kinds of side effects that natural cannabinoids don't. Presumably any variations on fentanyl could have similar problems.

This has already happened. There is no shortage at all of mystery meat "fentalogues" already flooding the market and this isn't about to stop. Some of these are bound to be unaffected by this dumbass vaccine scheme and and they will be sought after and when there's a market there'll be a seller. That cat been out the bag.

By the way, since fentanyl refers to a certain compound, these "reformated" fentanyls you posit won't consist of "fentanyl" if you see where I'm going with this. It's the wrong term.

Comment Re:Of all the idiotic... (Score 1) 154

This is to HELP ADDICTS. They get a shot, Fentanyl stops getting them high, and they can be weaned off of it easier since there's no euphoria associated with the drug for THAT PERSON.

They get a shot, Fentanyl stops getting them high, and they go through excruciating withdrawals. They're "weaned" as quickly as those antibodies start circulating.

The person you replied to is correct, by the way. This stupid scheme prevents hospital physicians from using one of the most effective agents they have available to relieve your pain when you roll into the hospital broken in half. There's no separating the "high" from the medical effects. That's not how it works.

Comment People who think like ants (Score 2) 286

There's always gotta be some ignorant wiseass who has to signal his obedience to the traditional orthodoxy. Ten years from now he'll tell you he was the first one to say it was microplastics, too.

With people like this guy, their ability to feel shame is much like their ability to feel satisfaction: entirely dependent on other, "higher" authorities' punishment and reward. It's a pathetic existence.

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