Re: a couple of links i think are interesting

2002-03-15 Thread M.W.Chang [linuxism]
M$ will defiitely re-package the news to their advantage, dep wrote: > As reported earlier this week by CNET News.com, a flaw in the zlib > software-compression library could leave much of the systems based on > the open-source operating system Linux open to attack. > On Thursday, researchers rep

a couple of links i think are interesting

2002-03-14 Thread dep
first, looks as if maybe the lately troublesome zlib was scooped up and used by msft: Microsoft's borrowed code may pose risk By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com March 14, 2002, 12:05 PM PT A security flaw in open-source software used by Linux and Unix systems for compressi