Security Vulnerability Bingo 21
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samzenpus
from the fun-and-games dept.
from the fun-and-games dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Ben Bitdiddle of MIT fame sends an open letter to system administrators encouraging them to stop patching their systems so they can play 'Security Vulnerability Bingo.'"
Sounds fun... (Score:5, Informative)
Shame it's such a blatant advertisement.
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A-D-O-B-E (Score:5, Funny)
Bingo!
...you insensitive clod... (Score:2, Funny)
I administer an online bingo site and just had a panicky moment whilst reading that headline. "Security, Bingo? Erk!"
Attention Underlings... (Score:4, Funny)
That is all...
Advertisement (Score:2)
If it really doesn't give us useful information other than " The sky is falling , the sky is falling...." and ends with buy this product, shouldn't it just be labeled advertisement.
The only chance of this being useful is if it creates a meaningful discussion. So I doubt it
old news (Score:4, Funny)
I discovered this security hole years ago at our volunteer fire dept. hall.
I used to call out BINGO without actually having bingo, and at least one time in ten they gave me the prize without even checking my board.
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ok, nevermind, misread the post. Dont you hate when a lame joke is rendered even more embarrassing through illiteracy?
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Doesn't really happen to me but you seem to have plenty of experience.
Back in the day... (Score:1)
Slashdotted? (Score:2)
I can't get the page to load. Their servers must be pretty weak if they can be slashdotted by an idle story with 11 comments (as of this writing).
We seem to have broken their server (Score:2)
Re:We seem to have broken their server (Score:4, Funny)
I think a slashdotting is the free token in the middle of the board.
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You're saying their server is only worth about 3 cents [google.com] now?
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reducing their server to ruble.
I'm pretty sure hiring hackers in Russia is cheating.
Old ladies game (Score:3, Funny)
Bingo is associated, at least with me, with an older crowd set. For the more youthful who would enjoy a faster developing game try setting up multiple dhcp servers in the same address range. It would ne the equivalent of Texas holdem.
Entertainment is the only reason I can think of why a sys admin at a clients chooses to set them up that way. Well maybe it is closer to beer pong and the guy is just an idiot...
Fine with me (Score:2)
Sure, it's fine if they stop patching their systems. Just so long as they keep patching the systems that belong to their employers before they decide to screw around.
Its just (Score:1)
Bingodverising.