Re: Internet child-porn crackdown: Federal prosecutions soar   

On Aug 26, 1:31 am, Charlie Wilkes 
wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:16:15 -0700, Stratum wrote:
> > On Aug 25, 10:52 pm, nob...@nospam.pacbell.net (Bill Z.) wrote:
> >> Stratum  writes:
> >> > On Aug 25, 7:29 pm, Charlie Wilkes
> >> >  wrote:
>
> >> > How would an open system prevent a SQL injection attack like the one
> >> > described here (see link)?
>
> >> >    http://www.rtraction.com/blog/devit/sql-injection-hack-using-
> cast.html
>
> >> That's somewhat irrelevant as the poster seemed to claiming to use an
> >> open-source system on his own computer, and most users do not run SQL
> >> database servers on their home systems.
>
> > In fact, the poster posted from a Linux advocacy group which is
> > populated
> > by crackpots like you, if not *by* you.  The Apache Web server commonly
> > installed on Linux boxes is as susceptible to SQL injection attack by
> > query string as any other Web page server which processes query strings
> > with data table lookups.
>
> So what?  I was addressing a situation in which someone buried a
> keystroke logger in a proprietary dll.  

Buried through what mechanism?  Logs into what?
By "dll", do you mean a managed or an unmanaged assembly?

> That's not so easy with software compiled from open source code.

This is too silly to argue.  Did you think that something happens
to open source code at full moon that endows it with magical
qualities?


>
> And who really knows what is inside Vista?

Anybody who's read an operating systems text at the level of
Tanenbaum (*), for instance.  And he's not exactly at the level of
peer reviewed research journals.

(*) Andy Tanenbaum, professor of computer sci at Vrij Univ., Amsterdam
and
author of MINIX is perhaps most famous for being a professor of Linus
Torvalds
who created a production OS out of MINIX in 1990-91 which he named
for himself.


I pointed out a type of malware which is easily defeated.  While it
does
not infect a client, as another well known troll hereabouts pointed
out,
it does infect precisely your open source system when deployed as a
server.  And further, your open source client can be easily infected
with a Trojan which unknown to its hapless user attacks
Web page servers with the same malware, while a Vista OS user almost
certainly cannot.

Your open source software is based on an outmoded architecture
and is written in a legacy language which is useful now
chiefly as a teaching tool.

date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:46:58 -0700 (PDT)   author:   Stratum