On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:02:39 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 07:52:11 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>
>>> If this indeed solves the problem without compromising functionality,
>>> all the better. Considering how it was presented, it truly seemed like
>>> an issue whose solution involved crippling the operating system.
>>
>> The sky is falling! The sky is falling! The tech world loves click
>> generating headlines just as much as the MSM.
>
> 1. What outfits are part of the "MSM". Is Fox News part of the MSM,
> based on its popularity?

Certainly. I cast a wide net and it's all about advertising, or 'eyeballs'
as they say.

Not to get into the gun thing but 'Guns & Ammo' magazine offers 'specials'
that generally come down to $12 a year subscriptions. I also get the
'American Rifleman' which is part of the NRA membership. The format is a
little different so I decided $12 was too much for another mailbox filler
and didn't renew. I then got many warning and offers and still didn't
renew. The magazine keeps coming.

What is important for most magazines is their circulation numbers that
they use to peddle advertising. $12 is chump change compared to how many
magazines they mail each month.

Typically I read https://www.theregister.com/, https://arstechnica.com/,
https://betanews.com/, and https://thehackernews.com/. I haven't figured
out the first two since they don't seem to be peddling anything. The other
two a subtle or not so subtle. https://gizmodo.com/ seems fairly clean.
https://www.engadget.com/ can be interesting but it's definitely a
huckster site.

> 2. All sites want "clicks". It helps pay the bills.

The ones that puzzle me are the ones that don't force a registration and
don't have 'see the price on Amazon' buttons. Cui bono?

On 2024-09-28 2:53 p.m., rbowman wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 07:52:11 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>
>> If this indeed solves the problem without compromising functionality,
>> all the better. Considering how it was presented, it truly seemed like
>> an issue whose solution involved crippling the operating system.
>
> The sky is falling! The sky is falling! The tech world loves click
> generating headlines just as much as the MSM. Certainly vulnerabilities
> have been detected but most require quite a bit of conditions to be
> exploited. Meanwhile Ukrainian hackers find the real open doors.
>

Apparently, there is no short supply of them on either of the operating
systems out there. The only sure way of not getting your computer hacked
is to keep it disconnected from the Internet. An old machine running
FreeDOS and devoid of a modem should be safe enough.

--
CrudeSausage
Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king

In reply to "CrudeSausage" who wrote the following:

> On 2024-09-28 2:53 p.m., rbowman wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 07:52:11 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
> >
> > > If this indeed solves the problem without compromising functionality,
> > > all the better. Considering how it was presented, it truly seemed like
> > > an issue whose solution involved crippling the operating system.
> >
> > The sky is falling! The sky is falling! The tech world loves click
> > generating headlines just as much as the MSM. Certainly vulnerabilities
> > have been detected but most require quite a bit of conditions to be
> > exploited. Meanwhile Ukrainian hackers find the real open doors.
> >
>
> Apparently, there is no short supply of them on either of the operating
> systems out there. The only sure way of not getting your computer hacked
> is to keep it disconnected from the Internet. An old machine running
> FreeDOS and devoid of a modem should be safe enough.
>
> --
> CrudeSausage
> Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king

Well, you know what they say...

"The only winning move is not to play." - Wargames 1983

Nothing is 100% safe. But Linux is, in my opinion, still much safer then Windows
and Mac.
Phillip Frabott
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On 2024-09-29, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2024-09-28 2:53 p.m., rbowman wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 07:52:11 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>
>>> If this indeed solves the problem without compromising functionality,
>>> all the better. Considering how it was presented, it truly seemed like
>>> an issue whose solution involved crippling the operating system.
>>
>> The sky is falling! The sky is falling! The tech world loves click
>> generating headlines just as much as the MSM. Certainly vulnerabilities
>> have been detected but most require quite a bit of conditions to be
>> exploited. Meanwhile Ukrainian hackers find the real open doors.
>>
>
> Apparently, there is no short supply of them on either of the operating
> systems out there. The only sure way of not getting your computer hacked
> is to keep it disconnected from the Internet. An old machine running
> FreeDOS and devoid of a modem should be safe enough.

Almost always, with Linux, the "sky is falling" issue is hypothetical. Lots
of ifs. If you do this, and that and this... you might get hacked... maybe.

In the Windows world, when a virus (or a problem with an application) issue
arises, people actually suffer outages. It's not hypothetical. Just recently
many Windows computers went down with BSODs because of a CrowdStrike update
because of the way Microsoft let an application update cripple Windows.
Admittedly, I've seen a lot fewer of these screw-ups in recent years, but
they still happen.

I don't know of any any Linux computers that were successfully attacked with
this CUPS issue. As far as I know it was all hypothetical... this "could"
happen with a lot of "ifs" added. And that is normally the case with Linux
security issues.

--
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” —J.R.R. Tolkien

On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 06:49:19 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> Apparently, there is no short supply of them on either of the operating
> systems out there. The only sure way of not getting your computer hacked
> is to keep it disconnected from the Internet. An old machine running
> FreeDOS and devoid of a modem should be safe enough.

For a one-user personal computer an air gap works fine. Get enough people
with access to the network some damned fool will have to sneak a peek at
the thumb drive they found in the parking lot.