Because this is China.
Executable offensives include: political dissent, terrorism, drug dealing, child pornography, being of the wrong religous groups, the usual laundry list.
Where it gets exciting is when they send doctors to determine your blood type to decide if you've committed an executable offense.
Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard.
The real issue is that once upon a time people in Somali could make a living fishing off their shores. Boats passing through the Suez canal dump their waste in international waters, which is roughly defined as "not the red sea or the mediterranean", which the end result of most of the ships dumping their pollutants into the Somali waters. The country has complained to the UN, who won't do anything about the issue unless oil rights are transferred from the Chinese to America as protection money. This has little chance of happening, and so when the people in the middle eventually take up arms against the international ships dumping in their waters they are labeled pirates and shot out of the water to satisfy the moralistic urges of people who like simple good versus bad qualifiers.
They are all important, because they all fix critical security vulnerabilities.
What kind of incompetent fool would still use such a pathetically weak password hashing scheme?
C is always 'on error resume next'.
Will they forbid the interpretation of TCP sequence numbers without explicit user permission too?
You forgot to mention the existence of serial consoles in your eagerness to shill for VMWare.
Read http://lwn.net/ instead.
So why not open the LSE at the same actual *time* and ignore this political tomfoolery?
And that is exactly what you do in the real world.
e.g., pam_unix allows you to set the 'rounds' parameter to slow the calculations, in case the increased default is not paranoid enough for you.
The original article simply gives us a bunch of SHA1 hashes, unmodified, unsalted. Far too weak for real-world use, yes.
Reinstall.
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