Cassandra

September 24, 2004

For the record, Vernor Vinge was right. I want that slogan on a T-shirt.

Last February, it was .bmp files that carried the hack. This time, viewing a JPG on a Windows XP computer that is not running Service Pack 2 can cause your computer to execute arbitrary commands. This is horrible. Imagine what would happen if I stuck an worm image in a bunch of Flickr photostreams. Imagine what would happen if I used one for an LJ icon. Do you read a bulletin board that allows people to upload their own avatars?

Time to upgrade to SP2. I don’t care if it breaks City of Heroes.

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t. rev

This is completely unrelated, but it occurred to me recently that the address ‘popone.innocence.com’ looks like it should belong to a porn site.

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