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[sod () command com inter net (Scriptors of DOOM)]

Wow.  Talk about effective product removal.  If you haven't seen the
latest HPSL bulletin, partake of genteel quotes:

> DAMAGE:   Vulnerabilities in HP Remote Watch exists allowing users to
>           gain additional privileges.

r00t!  We want r00t!  And what's the proposed solution?

> SOLUTION: Do not use Remote Watch.

Damn.  If this keeps up for long, they might not have an operating system
left to sponsor.

Unfortunately, though, since HP now seems to be dropping RemoteWatch from
it's product line, we've got to dump our load, too.  We weren't going to
do this so quickly, we'd much rather have spread it all out over time,
but I guess this business really is unpredictable.

So that means y'all get a special discount this week, two for the price of
one.  Yessiree, we've got problems with RemoteWatch's use of files in
/tmp/iconTmpUpdate and more problems with rwiDCOM's use of /usr/bin/telnet
for communications.

So pop that browser on over to our snuggly little HP Bug of the Week at
http://command.com.inter.net/~sod/, where on bug a week is the promise we
keep, lest we burn in vomituous desolate hell.

G'day.


SPECIAL NOTE TO OUR FRIENDS AT HP:

I actually have one simple question that I hope someone in your company
with expertise and sufficient knowledge can answer:  What are you waiting
for?  I mean, we've had some inquiries from a few HP grunts who were
curious and receptive, but hardly in a decisive position (I think) to make
any claims or judgements of your company as a whole.  I haven't heard word
one from any evil, fascist lawyer threatening to sue me for something only
a lawyer think up -- Why?  I haven't yet seen word one from any of your
security gurus telling me stop or they'll shoot -- Why?  Granted, I did
happen to notice a quick mention of some random "Mailing List" in your
last Security Bulletin -- not so much as a "by your leave" or a "Thank
You" for Christ-sakes.  Are you waiting until we're finished and then
we'll have done all the work for you?  I hope not.  Are you waiting until
the Secret Service finds out my real name so you can send your subpoenas
to a living body?  Hell, man, they already know who I am.

Ok, I give in.  I'll tell you who I am.  I'm David Hasslehoff.  That's right,
David Hasslehoff, famous star from popular TV shows "Baywatch" and "Knight
Rider."  All this time I bet you just thought I was some studmuffin that
you envied on your TV screen.  Never did you figure that I, David Hasslehoff,
was actually some lonely, desparate computer geek who drools over Pamela
Andersen's boobs.  Ha!  I fooled you all!

Anyway, WTFO?