If you are wondering where I went, try to think back to what happened on 11 February.
(World of Warcraft owns me.)
I hate the term "blog" more than jcs does.
A new edition of sikkerhed-faq.dk has been published.
Michael Howard is losing it. In his latest entry he shows a vulnerable strcpy() call and then says: "As you can see there is a bug on the third line, the code is copying untrusted input to a stack-based buffer. A classic 'Stack Smash'. On Windows, this would generally not be a security bug as the code can only run as you."
Right. You see, there are no security boundaries in Windows at all. So, a strcpy() call like the one above in, say, an RPC service wouldn't matter at all. Nor would such a strcpy() call matter if it appeared in a part of Windows Media Player that reads a stream from the network. It simply wouldn't be a problem. That is why Microsoft is releasing 15 security patches on Tuesday, most of them rated critical.
I am being sarcastic of course. What gets to me is that Howard knows all this. So why is he talking rubbish? I have no idea. Maybe PR told him to slip in the odd technical misrepresentation of competing software?
<ecksor> Some fat gentleman wearing black was quite forceful that I left
the nightclub where he worked last night.
<holsta> I don't work in a nightclub!
<ecksor> And if you did you wouldn't kick me out, right!
<cian> Why were you kicked out?
<holsta> cian, you know perfectly well how jerry behaves in nightclubs.
<ecksor> Cian doesn't frequent nightclubs very much, but I've never been
kicked out of anywhere before that I can recall right now and I
don't believe I was out of order.
<holsta> Come on. You and your Superman t-shirt.. picking on everyone.
<cian> Haha.
<ecksor> Anyway, the official line is that they thought I had too much to
drink.
<cian> It's true that nightclubs aren't my thing, holsta. I'm more of a
pints-in-a-relaxed-atmosphere type.
<cian> But you're our man on the spot, ecksor, our daring reporter!
What's the REAL story? ;o)
<ecksor> I believe that my athleticism and good looks reminded them too
much of their own shortcomings.
<ecksor> Anyway, I can't have been that drunk since I didn't tell them
what I thought of them and their abilities to function in the
human race.