The Linux Security Circus: On GUI isolation

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[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

What Linus Torvalds probably said to the devs who designed it:

Your life is nothing! You serve zero purpose! You should kill yourself now! And give somebody else a piece of that oxygen and ozone layer, that's covered up so we can breathe inside this blue trapped bubble. Because what are you here for? To worship me? Kill yourself. I mean that, with a hundred percent. With a thousand percent.

[–]ihfl2813 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What Linus Torvalds probably said to the devs who designed it:

We all make mistakes sometimes.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He doesn't seem to understand that unfortunately.

[–]LarrySwinger2[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I lol'd. Spot on.

[–]LarrySwinger2[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, I forgot to put this in the title, but this article is from 2011.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

the cake is a lie!

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Next, open a Command Prompt and type 'FDISK' and prepare to have your mind blown!"

[–]CreditKnifeMan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So.. Android is Linux based.

Does a similarly catastrophic vulnerability exist?

[–]LarrySwinger2[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Have you read the article? It's an issue in xorg.

[–]CreditKnifeMan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This explains why you have to learn to read machine code directly from the green screen; when unplugging from the matrix.

Learn to code...

Inception..ception..ception