[hblug] Vista craked but not Ubuntu

[Brett Wilkins]

I'm under the first possibility you've listed there :)

Guys at work do lots of hacking. In perl. And in python. (including myself.)

It's definitely not cracking!

Cheers

Brett

> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:44:50 +1200 (NZST)
> Brett Wilkins wrote:
>
>> The exploiters were probably running Ubuntu themselves, too ;)
>>
>> The only hacking you could possibly win a prize for with regards to
>> linux would likely be a coding hack.
>
> Hmm 2 possibilities...
>
> 1. You understand the difference between hacking and cracking. All
> programmers (According to Eric Raymond) are code "hackers". The nasty
> ones are crackers.
>
> 2. You have never heard of a real Linux vulnerability. If not let me
> enlighten you:
> http://www.chkrootkit.org/
> http://la-samhna.de/library/rootkits/index.html
>
> --
> Michael
>
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