[olug] Attack WinXP with a JPEG!

[Eric Lusk]

Quite true; I look at it this way...
My Linux server has little downtime, runs relatively
old hardware efficiently, and I have little fear of it
being virused.
But, the money I make supporting other peoples'
Windows  systems pays for the bandwidth I need to keep
the server online :)
And if everyone was running Linux, there WOULD be more
danger from malicious hackers.
--- "William E. Kempf" <wekempf at cox.net> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, September 14, 2004 3:44 pm, Mike Hostetler
> said:
> > Apparently there is no example exploit yet, but a
> carefully crafted
> > JPEG could compromise an XP machine!
> >
> >
>
http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=47205207
> >
> > See, that's why you don't tie your applications so
> tightly to your OS . .
> > .
> 
> Other's have pointed out how this has nothing to do
> with tying your
> applications so tightly to your OS.  I'll just point
> out that the exact
> same issue exists in a well respected OpenSource
> application.
> 
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/15/1758239
> 
> If we truly want computing to become safer, we have
> to halt all of the
> disengenuous arguments and focus on our
> vulnerabilities.  In some ways MS
> is a lot further from being secure than Linux (but
> not in all ways... in
> fact, NT was given a higher security rating by the
> government than any
> Unix system at one point in history), but that
> doesn't mean you don't have
> a lot of cleaning up to do in your own house. 
> Spending time attacking MS
> (whether you believe they deserve it or not) is
> counter-productive, not
> helpful.
> 
> -- 
> William E. Kempf
> wekempf at cox.net
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