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Interesting "Security" Issue on GRUB 2
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http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzY4NQ
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Phoronix.com did a very poor job explaining this; they made it look like the bug was keyed to their brand.
Actual bug is any valid first letter(s) of the password are sufficient for authentication. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=555195
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Generally its not the first time Phoronix.com showed incompetence.
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religions, worst damnation of mankind "If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened." Linus Torvalds Linux is not UNIX! Face it! It is not an insult. It is fact: GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not UNIX”. vermaden's: links resources deviantart spreadbsd
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