You guys are ruthless, but I can hang. Enjoy your rendezvous....

I was just poking a bit of fun If there really is a serious vulnerability then I'd like to know about it (remote/local/which package/interim mitigations, etc), but there's got to be at least some details. As it stands, the thread contains no useful information.

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Yes, the OP probably should've just emailed Pat or got on IRC. I can understand why he'd not disclose what it is publicly. A status update would be nice.

"There is no spoon"

Do not try to bend the spoon

Possibly the OP is concerned that the slackware installer by default starts sshd without a firewall and with password login enabled. It also used to do that without testing the strength of the password and (if of low strength) warning the user that she was likely to be open to crackers, but maybe the installer checks password strength now (the libpwqualify package is provided by slackware-current). I thought that poor practice, particularly now that the networks scripts start IPv6 which tends not to be NATed, but it seems to be a policy decision by those who make such decisions.

Or it could be something completely different. Dunno.

Yeah nothing to go on here.

Hopefully crts is talking to Pat. All else is noise.

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I found a biiiiiiiig scawwwwwy baaaaad thing but I won't tell you about it.

Just use my patch to fix a problem that doesn't exist because trust me I know better than you. I totally did not put my own back door in. I will only talk to my man Pat becuase I'm cool like that.

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Yeah,

Before Pat gets involved there is nothing. Be it in private or out in the open.
And - as per how Pat seems to be doing stuff - he will check/test it and assess if there is any actual, real life problems going on.
If there is anything it'll be dealt with. If not, well...

But just announcing there is a problem and not telling anyone what it is is - on the best of days - Not Helpful!
(The words used in my head for describing this is much less safe for work than the squeaky-clean description above.)

Just my 0.02 <your local currency>

Thanks
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KarlMag

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Ummm, what? back at you.

Tempting as it would be for me to make a political statement, there have been many cases where individuals in other contexts explicitly express which pronouns should be used to refer to said individuals.

Some of those pronouns appear to be (as far as I can tell) recent inventions. The non-recent English language pronoun that does not assume that you are either male or female is "it".

The OP may not care about such things at all. There are some countries in North America (and some political subdivisions in other countries in the Western Hemisphere) where not referring to an individual with said individual's preferred pronouns is grounds for the government to take you to court and find you guilty of a criminal act.

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... with bells on. Post #24 makes no sense at all.

Anyway, based on context, that "it'll" was referring back to the details of the vulnerability being hinted at, not "The OP".


And yes, we now have some absolutely OTT "Hate speech" laws here in the UK.

If some people object to the use of she/he/it, then lets just combine them into a new, singular non-specific pronoun: I'd suggest "sheit"!

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In all honesty, even on Russian (which itself is a genderfied language, just like the Spanish, Italian or French) when cannot be identified the gender of subject(s), it is used the neutral case: Оно, Они - in translation: it, they/them

http://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/pronouns.php

However, from what I heard, the Asian languages like Japanese, Korean, Thai, Chinese uses a particular case of neutral like in "unidentified person" which is different from the (common) neutral applied to non-humans and/or things.

So, probably an Asian may expect a similar grammatical construct even on the foreign languages. Just saying...

PS. I know some details about this because I watched some discussions between linguists who want to add this type of person neutral on Russian, as neologisms.

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I know in Indonesian there's no grammatical gender, but there are words for man, woman, person. I'm not sure what modern usage is for someone who's nonbinary. "Orang?" Like "orang itu," person over there? I know sometimes "es" gets used in German, but it's not a standard thing, I don't think. It's definitely an ongoing discussion, namely because of the "es/it" connotation, although there are some gendered words, cf "das Mädchen," that are already neutral. (And again I'm out of practice with German, although I could probably opine over music easily.) If I were talking to a nonbinary German person, I'd probably try to sidestep pronouns, unless they told me which they prefer. Always best to err on the side of politeness in a language you don't speak natively.

Always wanted to learn Russian or Korean. Someday!

Because he writes perfect code ... I guess



Cheers

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I suggested twice to the OP to email Patrick Volkerding if he wants that what he considers to be an issue be assessed. I don't know if he did, anyway I wouldn't mind that this thread be closed.

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