I don't think he was accusing you of anything.

Huh, I get it... I was thinking completely out of context when I read his comment.

They could hack into the iPad to make it display this: http://www.thecleverest.com/countdown.swf

High chance somebody gets shot.

That's a lot of hacking to display Flash on iPad :)

And what's the practical difference between minimaxir#1667 and minimaxir1667, other than there's no "minimaxir" with no numbers?

Numbers are allowed in the username (https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/700007) so using a pound as a delimiter is necessary to separate numbers at the end of a Battletag and the unique identifier.

Unless you're hovering your mouse over them, it only shows minimaxir.

Was that a security issue or just a crash?

It would lead to the screen becoming unlocked, iirc.

Edit: Just to add a bit more detail. xscreensaver locks the screen by putting a window across it that grabs ownership of input devices. Thus if it crashes, the window goes away and the inputs released.

I think that's basically how all the X11 screenlockers work, sadly.

Yes. But xscreensaver only use straight xlib to paint any UI elements. JWZ's argument is that this reduce the chance of bugs vs using the likes of GTK or Qt to draw password prompts etc.

Looking at bug tracker activity so far would suggest that it does, but of course, the stats might be skewed by far more people using a Gnome/Unity/Cinnamon/whatever-ified version of xscreensaver than the vanilla one.

I read about that bug a while ago. It was due to mishandling a strange X11-specific cornercase; to be fair, that's the kind of stuff that is certainly more aptly handled (in the X11 world) in a toolkit (X11-specific cornercases are like 30% of the reason why, as soon as alternatives to Xlib were available, everyone embraced them and cried tears of joy), which would suggest that not relying on toolkits opens xscreensaver's locker to other issues that are more aptly handled in a toolkit.

However, if you look over the bugs that Gnome, Cinnamon or Unity's wrappers had... I'm inclined to think that there are a lot more trivial problems (like the one I linked in my other comment, here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11412688 ) in Gnome's a thousand and one libraries than there are cornercases in X11.

I don't think he meant to say it was flawless, but I'm sure you agree it reduces the attack surface by a great deal.

> For the record, the timebomb for 5.34 will go off on 2017-04-01, ie, shortly after stretch's expected release date.

Debian always providing with fun...

I wish all paywalls were like this: a modal I can remove with the developer tools.

I think there's a big difference between what that tweet says and having "banned April Fools". But what do I know :-)

It was an opinion piece, but a editorial. WaPo really tried hard to over analyze that post.

After all, Xinhua has traditionally avoided publishing opinions because their main role is a news agency, but with social media there is a lot less restraint than before.

There's absolutely nothing in that post that makes me think it's an opinion piece or an editorial. It's a regular news entry, and a very misleading one, if not outright malicious.

The Weibo handle quoted in the WaPo article was named "Xinhua Opinions/Viewpoints", does not get more obvious than that.

Why not? Chrome released the RLZ library code...

Hopefully you're right, and MS does Open Source it. :)

That would give people a chance to see what's really happening, rather than just seeing bad actions + hearing weasel words (aka corporate speak) to justify them.

Ah, that's good. Cordova is so horribly, horribly awful I am glad to see this happen.