Yesterday was a happy, happy day for gamers and game developers alike.
During Jack Thompsons disciplinary hearings the Florida Bar Association asked for what is known as an enhanced disbarment. What this means is that Thompson wouldn’t be allowed to reapply to the bar for ten years, instead of five.
During the hearings Thompson apparently abruptly left the proceeding after filing a 14-page objection titled simply “Thompson’s Formal Objection to June 4 Sanctions Hearing.”
In Jacks unmistakable style the objection featured, among other things, quotes from the bible and threats to remove the presiding judge, the honorable Dava Tunis, from office.
The final word on this won’t be heard before early September, when Judge Tunis is to file her official report on the matter.
Knowing Jacks colorful past, I really can’t see him making things any better on himself, though.
Of course, should Jack be disbarred for 10 year, this would most probably have little effect on the volume of cease and desist letters, and other pleasantness we’ve come to expect, spewing from the former-attorney-to-be, but here’s hoping.
Original story at Kotaku.
I purchased my Aspire roughly a year ago, and was just now thinking how my opinion and general stance towards the machine has changed during these 12 months. So I did what every good bad blogger would, and decided to post a lengthy personal rant about the matter.
Continue reading ‘Acer Aspire 5051 AWXMi after a year’
Today I was feeling a bit strange, laying sick in bed, and for some reason decided to try and throw together a quine in PHP. If you don’t yet know what a quine is, check the definition in wikipedia.
Continue reading ‘PHP-Quine’
Description
From the publishers site:
Swanson Share is a file hoster that allows you to upload a file
that can only be downloaded once before it is deleted.
All downloads are secured, so you can use Swanson Share to distribute digital downloads.
Problem
Secured, eh? We certainly have a very different view on what “secure” means.
The script allows visitors to upload php-script files (strike 1), stores them in a publicly viewable folder under the web root, only prepending a random number in front of the original filename (strike 2) and upon download of the file, includes the file and thus runs any and all php-code inside (strike 3, you’re out!)
An attacker could easily write up a script to drop a php-shell on the remote server, and have that script run by first uploading and then downloading the file.
Continue reading ‘Swanson Share malicious code execution vulnerability’
