License and beard registration, please.

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Behind the Beard

Behind the Beard 01/07/2004 03:28 PM
Christmas feels like its already come and gone at our place. I was lucky enough to marry into a different holiday tradition, as Estonians celebrate Christmas Eve. We awoke to stockings filled by Elves, called the relatives, took a nice...

well tug my beard!

well tug my beard! 02/11/2004 02:59 PM
Public Service Announcement, Nerd-style: The Wizards of the Coast stores, called here in Los Angeles, are all going out of business. Their stock is still pretty good, and everything is at least 40% off the cover.

Got a Beard? Don't Bother to Run

Got a Beard? Don't Bother to Run 09/18/2004 01:06 PM
One thing about this election is known: the man who occupies the Oval Office for the next four years will not have a beard or mustache.

Watch the guy with the beard

Watch the guy with the beard 06/23/2004 06:05 AM
Shoot out in a gym (warning: 14MB mov file)

I can only dream of growing his beard.

I can only dream of growing his beard. 11/03/2003 02:34 PM
Hail to the world beard champion. I bow to you Karl Heinz Hille. (pics)

Danny Kaye, James Beard and me

Danny Kaye, James Beard and me 09/03/2004 08:27 AM
Forget the knives -- eat the onion sandwich! Recipe included.

World Beard and Moustache Championships

World Beard and Moustache Championships 03/30/2005 02:35 PM
David Pescovitz: National Geographic reports on the annual World Beard and Moustache Championships that will take place this October in Berlin:

Another top contender is Jürgen Burkhardt (image left), a 48-year-old photographer from Leinfelden, near Stuttgart, who sports a curled mustache/muttonchop combo about the size of a boomerang.

Left unstyled, Burkhardt's mustache has a wingspan that stretches five feet (one and a half meters) from tip to tip.

The German washes his mustache three times before starting his 30-minute daily styling regime. Needless to say, hairspray factors heavily into its maintenance.

"A nice mustache, also beard, is the result of the perfect harmony of curves," Burkhardt wrote in a recent e-mail interview. "You must have good style with a good form and line."

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Zilwaukee Lawmaker Seeks Beard Mandate
(AP)

Zilwaukee Lawmaker Seeks Beard Mandate
(AP) 12/31/2003 11:55 AM
AP - The men of Zilwaukee may soon face a hairy dilemma every morning.

Mich. City Rethinks Beard Requirement
(AP)

Mich. City Rethinks Beard Requirement
(AP) 01/09/2004 09:55 PM
AP - Zilwaukee's men can shave at will. The Zilwaukee City Council has voted to make beard-growing a voluntary way to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the town just north of Saginaw.

Peirsol, Beard Set Records at Swim
Trials (AP)

Peirsol, Beard Set Records at Swim
Trials (AP) 07/12/2004 08:48 PM
AP - Aaron Peirsol sent a clear message to the world's greatest swimmer Monday, setting a world record in the 200-meter backstroke and handing Michael Phelps his first loss of the U.S. Olympic swimming trials.

Whiskers Go Wild at World Beard,
Mustache Games

Whiskers Go Wild at World Beard,
Mustache Games 03/31/2005 03:43 AM
Whiskers Go Wild at World Beard, Mustache Games .. National Geographic .. large article

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BBC NEWS | Americas | German crowned
world beard champion

BBC NEWS | Americas | German crowned
world beard champion 11/04/2003 05:18 AM
Americans made a stronger showing than expected, capturing four titles .. Americas German crowned world beard champion .. beat out 130 other beardos .. thunk

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"BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Decision
time at beard Olympics"

"BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Decision
time at beard Olympics" 11/03/2003 09:33 PM

World Beard and Moustache Championships
Carson City 2003

World Beard and Moustache Championships
Carson City 2003 11/02/2003 06:30 AM
Heinz ChristophelHeddesheim, GermanyPalatinate Beard ClubCategory: Full beard, freestyle .. Wereld Baarden en Snorren Kampioenschappen .. they would all look like this .. World Beard and Mousta .. diamond in the rough

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EPICURIOUS: GOURMET: JAMES BEARD: POCKET
FULL OF DOUGH

EPICURIOUS: GOURMET: JAMES BEARD: POCKET
FULL OF DOUGH 04/09/2004 04:08 PM
How do you bribe, ex ante or ex post, your way into an exclusive restaurant? .. Gourmet's personal account of bribing NYC maitre d's .. A few tips for the well-heeled gourmand .. Pocketful of Dough

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BBC NEWS | In Depth | Photo Gallery | In
pictures: Beard and Moustache contest

BBC NEWS | In Depth | Photo Gallery | In
pictures: Beard and Moustache contest 11/05/2003 12:44 AM
the competition .. the runners up .. And the Photos .. Gallery .. (pics) .. photos

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BBC NEWS | World | Americas | German
crowned world beard champion

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | German
crowned world beard champion 11/04/2003 05:18 AM
world beard and moustache championships .. German crowned world beard champion .. Beardy Weirdies!

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Google says IPO registration nearly done

Google says IPO registration nearly done 08/16/2004 04:22 PM
CNET News.com Aug 16 2004 8:18PM GMT

Registration - BugMeNot.com

Registration - BugMeNot.com 07/25/2004 02:17 AM
If you're with a site that "enforces compulsory user registration", you're required to register with BugMeNot .. registration form like this

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Domain Name Registration

Domain Name Registration 08/22/2004 11:38 AM
control all my domains .. registrar of choice .. Network Solutions .. Email Services .. Web Hosting .. register it .. registrar .. Dotster, .. Dotster

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BugMeNot Registration

BugMeNot Registration 08/11/2004 11:51 AM
BugMeNot.com now requires registration. For employees, partners, affiliates or legal representatives of any site which enforces compulsory user registration to view content, that is. It should only take a moment.

Google to end IPO registration

Google to end IPO registration 08/12/2004 05:44 AM
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takes on registration

takes on registration 12/29/2003 06:06 AM
stomping

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EC to computerize voters registration

EC to computerize voters registration 09/01/2004 05:05 PM
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Los Angeles Times - Registration

Los Angeles Times - Registration 12/02/2003 12:28 AM

"a hilarious registration page"

"a hilarious registration page" 07/25/2004 02:33 PM

Google to End IPO Registration Thursday

Google to End IPO Registration Thursday 08/10/2004 12:28 PM
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top 25 bugmenot registration sites

top 25 bugmenot registration sites 08/19/2004 02:13 PM
people *really* don't like registering to read news

There Are Alternatives To User
Registration

There Are Alternatives To User
Registration 06/24/2004 06:03 PM
Just last week we wrote about how many more newspaper sites were making the mistake of forcing users to register, even though it wasn't helping them at all. First, it was drastically cutting their traffic by keeping out all the casual visitors (and links from blogs or other news aggregation sources) who don't want to register. That is, it's reducing their ad inventory. Second, even that additional info that they claim would help them sell more targeted ads is wrong, since many users just use bogus information. So, they get fewer users and useless info. This doesn't seem like a recipe for success. Earlier this week, I sent a note to that effect to the Sydney Morning Herald, which is trying to implement a registration scheme. They wrote me back, ignoring my points, and simply cutting and pasting the reason for adding registration. Steve Outing has written up a piece for Editor & Publisher explaining why online newspapers don't need to go to forced registration. First, he points out that one of the main problems with forced registration is that the users don't feel they're really getting anything of value -- and it clearly turns off casual readers. Instead, he suggests setting up offerings that add real value to get users to register, while still letting the casual reader in free. In that way, you also get rid of much of the dirty data, by giving users a reason to be honest. It seems like a smart solution: you don't lose any visitors, and for a core subset of loyal readers you get good data. It's so intelligent, in fact, that most online newspapers will ignore the idea.

AOL Developing New Registration Process

AOL Developing New Registration Process 08/04/2004 10:14 PM
America Online is testing a new user interface for the AOL registration process called "Prelude". Prelude has been distributed to several thousands testers, but, according to AOL, is not an indication that there is any new client software on its way. Despite disassociating Prelude from any major development efforts, AOL does have some tricks hidden up its sleeve. Fanfare, a next-generation alternative to the classic AOL client software for AOL for Broadband members, is currently being undergoing development.

Why Trust Registration Data?

Why Trust Registration Data? 08/11/2004 04:52 AM
Online news sites say we should just believe their claims that information in their user-registration databases is accurate. But given the circulation scandals among their print brethren, why should we? Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.

Google IPO Open for Registration

Google IPO Open for Registration 08/02/2004 10:21 AM

Google to end IPO registration tomorrow

Google to end IPO registration tomorrow 08/11/2004 06:27 AM
Baltimoresun.com - Wed Aug 11, 08:54 am GMT

Google to End IPO Registration Thursday
(AP)

Google to End IPO Registration Thursday
(AP) 08/10/2004 03:39 PM
AP - Google Inc. will close the registration process for its IPO auction Thursday, setting the stage for the online search engine leader's hotly anticipated stock market debut.

PCC Continues Its Online Registration

PCC Continues Its Online Registration 08/19/2004 06:05 AM
Theledger.com - Thu Aug 19, 10:18 am GMT

Why registration-sites suck

Why registration-sites suck 07/20/2004 06:15 AM
Wired News has a good piece on the backlash against the growing trend of news-sites requiring logins to read their articles, covering automated tools like the Mozilla bugmenot plugin that automatically spoofs your logins to 14,000+ sites.

The point that everyone seems to miss is that no one can possibly keep track of a thousand passwords for a thousand websites, which means that these sites undoubtably contain recycled passwords (admonishments from security experts to never recycle a password are the infosec equivalent of telling people to "eat less and exercise more" -- simplistic doctrine that is vanishingly unlikely to be adhered to in the field).

The more you recycle a password, the higher the likelihood that you will use it in a sensitive context -- a bank site, a message board, an IM client, an auction site -- where someone might impersonate you or even commit identity theft crimes against you.

What's even worse is that while these news-sites are willing to spend the computational cycles necessary to receive your password, none that I've seen use SSL for their login, which means that the NYT and others demand that you send your password in the clear when you sit down at a WiFi cafe and want to read the password. This is a potential disaster if that NYT password is also a sensitive one somewhere else: it's a case of really callous disregard for user privacy and security. Link

TypeKey and Comment Registration FAQ

TypeKey and Comment Registration FAQ 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
We're compiling a list of answers to frequently asked questions we're reading about TypeKey and comment registration. We hope to...

Free Pre-Registration of Eu-domains

Free Pre-Registration of Eu-domains 06/30/2004 03:17 AM
ICANN accredited registar Secura announces today, that the company is accepting applications for the sunrise and real time period of eu-domains (https://www.domainregistry.de/eu.html). [PRWEB Jun 30, 2004]

News site registration

News site registration 07/16/2004 11:46 AM

The single hottest topic in the online news industry at the moment is that of required registration. A number of large news sites (the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune) have moved to this model, and many local newspapers are following suit.

If you haven't seen BugMeNot, go and check it out now. It's a simple service for sharing free news site accounts, and it's started to upset some people in the news industry. A post to the online-news mailing list inquiring about possible legal action against the site prompted me to reply with the following:

The flaw here is not with BugMeNot - it's with the entire concept of user registration in its present form. The reason BugMeNot works is that there is absolutely no value to an end user in keeping their account to themselves. If you want to stop people from sharing their accounts, give them an incentive not to. This is not a difficult thing to do - I have a large number of accounts on different community sites which are used to contribute to discussions and manage my personal information. I would never dream of sharing those accounts with others - it would allow other people to impersonate me and damage my reputation. An account that only allows me to read content (a one-way interaction) is of no value to me, so why not share the account with others?

BugMeNot is not a new idea by any stretch of the imagination: shared accounts have existed for as long as sites have required registration for spurious reasons. For as long as I can remember, members of the MetaFilter community have worked together to set up username/password combinations of metafilter/metafilter on sites that require registration to bypass the irritation of setting up yet another account.

If you want to fight BugMeNot, the solution is to monitor the site and ban any accounts for your own site that appear there - but that's just fighting the symptoms. The core problem is the whole idea of registration itself: it's anti-web, anti-user, it doesn't scale and it's a sign of extreme short term thinking. Imagine if every site on the web required registration - no one would use it!

As a web user, I see registration as nothing more than an unnecessary irritation. Before BugMeNot I would simply hit "Back" whenever I saw a registration screen; now I use it to carry on through to the articles and accompanying ads. As a heavy web user who buys online almost as frequently as offline I'm exactly the kind of demographic sites should be trying to attract.

Reading the above a few days later, I think it still accurately represents my thoughts on the free registration model.

Adrian has also posted his thoughts on registration, which run along very similar lines to mine.

For a great example of the mentality behind registration, check out this sp iel from the Toronto Star (via Craig Saila):

Our main goal of asking you to become a registered member of thestar.com is to improve and enhance your online experience with us. Registration is an important piece of our long-term strategy in building a valuable audience for our advertisers and helping us in setting the priorities for future site development and enhancements.

[...]

By asking you to share some information with us we are able to increase the value of our site to advertisers, who help support the cost of producing one of Canada's top news sites, by offering them the ability to target their advertising messages based on the information you provide.

And that's the problem right there: as a user, the value proposition of having more targetted ads thrown at me just isn't a good enough incentive for me to jump through their hoops.

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CleanMyPC Registry Cleaner v2.15.2

CleanMyPC Registry Cleaner v2.15.2 10/29/2003 09:12 AM
CleanMyPC Registry Cleaner scans the Windows registry and finds incorrect or obsolete information in the registry. By fixing these obsolete information in Windows registry, your system will run faster and error free. The backup/restore function of the tool let you backup your whole Windows Registry so you can use it to restore the registry to the current status in case you encounter some system failure. Also features Startup and BHO organizer. [Shareware $29.95 15 Days 1013 KB]

Code v2.0 and the CC-Wiki license

Code v2.0 and the CC-Wiki license 03/19/2005 03:25 AM
The wikification of Code has launched. To all the insanely insightful souls who've criticized and extended the book, welcome. Creative Commons has also taken this opportunity to launch a beta version of a newly branded tweak of an old license -- the CC-Wiki license. We've been talking to wiki developers for some time now. They've been looking for a license that was (1) share alike, but (2) required attribution back to the wiki, rather than to the individual contributors to the wiki. We realized that could be achieved with a very slight change to our existing Attribution-Shar eAlike license: rather than requiring attribution back to the copyright holder, require attribution back to either the copyright holder or a designated entity. So we've made that slight modification to the attribution clause in this beta version, and used it for this wiki. But we won't release the license generally till we've had the ordinary time for discussion. Click here to join a discussion about the license, and any further changes people think we should make.

Microsoft opens up code under Common
Public License

Microsoft opens up code under Common
Public License 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
Is Microsoft going open source? No, but they have released product code to the open source community for the first time.

"Code Access Security (CAS) ? "Guilty
until proven Innocent" (Partially
Trusted Code) "

"Code Access Security (CAS) ? "Guilty
until proven Innocent" (Partially
Trusted Code) " 06/22/2004 04:03 AM

Code Snippets: Store, sort and share
source code, with tag goodness

Code Snippets: Store, sort and share
source code, with tag goodness 04/08/2005 07:52 PM
Code Snippets: Store, sort and share source code, with tag goodness

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"Code Snippets: Store, sort and share
source code, with tag goodness"

"Code Snippets: Store, sort and share
source code, with tag goodness" 04/09/2005 09:08 AM

OpenBase acquires Code Builder, RB
database code generator

OpenBase acquires Code Builder, RB
database code generator 03/23/2005 12:25 AM

CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA -- March 22, 2005 -- OpenBase International, Ltd., has acquired Code Builder, developed by Open Minded Solutions. Code Builder is a database application code generator for REALbasic, a cross-platform development environment for MacOS X, Windows and Linux platforms.

PSP hacked into something more useful

PSP hacked into something more useful 04/06/2005 06:17 PM
Apparently hackers have turned Sony's latest portable game player, the PSP handheld, into a device for online chat, Web browsing, and a venue for movies and music. Leave it to hackers who managed to add an online chat function by hijacking a Web browser built into a racing game called "Wipeout Pure." Once the hackers are able to change the PSP's network settings, they can point the browser to a Web portal. There's also a way for hackers to transfer TV programs recorded on the TiVo service to the PSP player, a program for reading e-books, and a viewer for...

You've Been Hacked!

You've Been Hacked! 06/24/2005 09:40 PM
Seven signs that a bad guy has commandeered your financial life.

Returning Your Available Character Code
Sets And Code Pages Via T-SQL

Returning Your Available Character Code
Sets And Code Pages Via T-SQL 08/18/2004 10:37 AM

Cisco Hacked?

Cisco Hacked? 05/17/2004 10:38 AM
Spooky news for the biggest makers of the Internet's infrastructure.

Hacked for Spam

Hacked for Spam 12/08/2003 11:18 PM

From the New York Times:

Computer security researchers have been watching the evolution of remote-access rogue programs as they have become more common and have put more machines under the control of hackers. Programs like Sinit infect target machines and surreptitiously open back doors that allow outsiders to control the PC's. The rings of infected computers have been used to send spam, to present online advertisements for pornographic Web sites or to trick people into giving up information like credit card numbers.

In fact, at least a third of all spam circulating on the Internet is now sent from or relayed by personal home computers that have been taken over, said Jesse Dougherty, director of development at Sophos, an antivirus and antispam company.

Emphasis mine. Of course, whether or not you want to believe a director from a company that directly profits from people's fear of security attacks is up to you. That said, I've seen plenty of supporting evidence in the past few months that indicates that spamming is now the number one reason that a cracker would want to take over a PC, not least this Wired article.

Continuing on the same theme, The Rise of the Spammers is a fascinating article by David Barroso Berrueta describing how one of his servers was turned in to a spam relay after being compromised through a vulnerability in a PHP script. The technical details are intriguing; the attacker downloaded and uncompressed a daemon which then communicated with another host using an extended version of the SMTP protocol, receiving spam email bodies along with lists of addresses to send the spam on to.

Let's talk about the PHP vulnerability in question: yet again, it was the classic problem where an attacker can instruct PHP to download and execute code from their own server by feeding in a query string parameter that is passed un-checked to an include() function call. While there are a number of steps that can be taken to deny this kind of attack, it unveils a fundamental problem with PHP itself - that it will execute code retrieved from a URL in the first place! This feature should be removed from PHP - it has almost no purpose in the real world aside from allowing servers to be cracked in to. The feature exists because PHP has the extremely useful ability to open remote files over HTTP. Unfortunately, this feature extends to the include() and require() functions which will execute any PHP code in the file passed to the functions. The most obvious solution to my mind would be for these functions to refuse to execute PHP in files that were opened via HTTP. I have no doubt that this would involve an ugly hack on behalf of PHP's maintainers, but I believe the number of security problems it would solve would be well worth the trade-off.

Incidentally, I know you can disable opening files over HTTP and I know you shouldnt allow the direct creation of variables from the query string in the first place. The problems here are two-fold: firstly, opening files over HTTP is actually a very useful feature, one that would be all the more useful if it didn't carry the risk of executing arbitrary code. Secondly, the problem is mainly down to third party software which often requires insecure PHP settings (such as register_globals) in order to work.

Help: I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do?
Part II

Help: I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do?
Part II 08/01/2004 12:27 AM

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If you missed part 1 of this series, I strongly suggest that you read it here. “On This Page: There Is More to Information Security Than Viruses Salvaging Data in the Absence of Backups Recovering After an Attack – What Tools Will Help? Conclusion”…

I Hacked at O'Reilly

I Hacked at O'Reilly 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
The O'Reilly Hacks site now has a hacks page for each contributor; mine's here.

Is It Illegal To Get Hacked?

Is It Illegal To Get Hacked? 04/21/2004 03:53 PM
Tower Records and the FTC have apparently reached a settlement after the FTC accused them of allowing hackers to access customer records. This brings up a very interesting question that isn't often discussed. Since hack attacks to get at customer data happen all the time how does anyone determine whether or not the company itself is negligent in not protecting the data? At what point is it negligence rather than just being vulnerable? If the standard is set too low, then companies have less incentive to protect their data (though, pissed off customers may provide that incentive). However, blaming the victim for being hacked seems to present a lot of slippery slope style questions.

""We have a policy that we are not being
hacked.""

""We have a policy that we are not being
hacked."" 07/03/2004 02:10 AM

"Blogrolling.com has been hacked"

"Blogrolling.com has been hacked" 11/18/2003 10:22 AM

Will the election be hacked?

Will the election be hacked? 02/10/2004 02:44 AM
A Salon special report reveals how new voting machines could result in a rigged presidential race -- and we'd never know.

How your phone could be hacked

How your phone could be hacked 04/25/2004 08:41 PM
ZDNet Apr 26 2004 0:36AM GMT

UK Officially The Most Hacked Country

UK Officially The Most Hacked Country 03/22/2005 03:39 PM

CERT: Sendmail Hacked

CERT: Sendmail Hacked 10/11/2002 07:56 AM
Internet News Oct 10 2002 0:40AM ET

Google's Web site is hacked

Google's Web site is hacked 07/26/2004 10:50 PM
Big News Network Jul 27 2004 2:57AM GMT

MSN Korea Hacked, Shut Down

MSN Korea Hacked, Shut Down 06/05/2005 11:59 PM
MSN was forced to take its South Korean Web site down for ten hours on Thursday after hackers broke into the site and added code to attempt to steal user passwords. While Microsoft said the news section of the site was the only part affected, the company removed the entire site as a precaution.

Techie alert: Even you can be hacked

Techie alert: Even you can be hacked 06/11/2004 09:51 AM

Windows Forensics: Have I been Hacked?

Windows Forensics: Have I been Hacked? 07/20/2004 11:02 AM

.name registry site hacked

.name registry site hacked 12/02/2003 01:55 AM
Apache exploit causes embrassment

Acxiom Database Hacked Again... And
Again... And Again...

Acxiom Database Hacked Again... And
Again... And Again... 07/21/2004 08:22 PM
Acxiom is one of the nation's largest providers of direct marketing (spam) lists, and the company can't seem to keep its databases safe from hackers. Late last year a man was caught copying one of their databases. Now, in what appears to be a much bigger case, authorities have hacking into the database repeatedly over a year and a half to retrieve names and personal info which he then sold for thousands of dollars to spammers. "Information accessed included names, addresses, e-mail addresses, customer demographics, and probably some birth dates and Social Security numbers." They discovered the breach soon after the first case, when they decided (what an idea) that it might make sense to actually check to make sure their databases were secure. And, of course, for those who are already in an Acxiom database and worried about the implications and would like out of their database, remember that they make it as difficult as possible to "opt out."

hacked with greater regularity

hacked with greater regularity 12/03/2003 08:41 AM
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SCO Group Web Site Hacked Again

SCO Group Web Site Hacked Again 12/10/2003 07:46 PM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 10 2003 6:53PM ET

CERT: Sendmail Hacked

CERT: Sendmail Hacked 10/09/2002 09:46 AM
Some copies of the source code for Sendmail has been hacked by an intruder and now contain a Trojan horse.

License and beard registration, please.

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