B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking' 301
New accepted submitter super_rancid writes that issue 154 of the "UK-based Linux Format magazine was pulled from Barnes and Noble bookstores in the U.S. after featuring an article called 'Learn to Hack'. They used 'hack' in the populist security sense, rather than the traditional sense, and the feature — which they put online — was used to illustrate how poor your server's security is likely to be by breaking into it."
Good for them! (Score:5, Funny)
That's because Linux is an OS used predominately by criminals to hack machines. I appluad Barnes and Noble for this responsible reaction.
Pulled for false advertising (Score:4, Funny)
With a title like "Learn to Hack" you're expecting instructions about chopping up things like bodies, not about poor server security.
Re:Meanwhile... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Pulled for false advertising (Score:5, Funny)
Re:They prefer that customers buy (Score:5, Funny)
Crap. I just violated Godwin's Law, didn't I?
Re:Good for them! (Score:5, Funny)
Using Linux is kind of like being one of the kids whose parents were alcoholics but did their best, in between drunken rants about the futility of life.
I would finish this by saying using Windows is like being one of the kids whose uncle used to have special sleep over parties, but I'd definitely get modded flamebait. And I use Windows on my personal machines. And my uncle didn't touch me.
Re:Good for them! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:They prefer that customers buy (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good for them! (Score:4, Funny)
Using Linux is kind of like being one of the kids whose parents were alcoholics but did their best, in between drunken rants about the futility of life.
Well, MY distro has the parents on methadone. It's clearly superior.
is your son a computer "hacker"? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Good for them! (Score:4, Funny)
Using Linux is kind of like being one of the kids whose parents were alcoholics but did their best, in between drunken rants about the futility of life.
Well, MY distro has the parents on methadone. It's clearly superior.
Ah, OpenBSD. Did you notice they just released their latest the other day?
Using Linux is like being a one eyed telepath in a world full of blind people, and you smell funny, so they grimace at you when you pass them but they don't have any clue why they need to.
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