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."
US$300M effect? (Score:3, Interesting)
Could it be that the buyout of B&N by Microsoft has produced the first victim?
Or just a "unfortunate coincidence" that the magazine censured over a word is a Linux magazine?
They prefer that customers buy (Score:4, Interesting)
less dangerous reading material [barnesandnoble.com] that has hurt no one.
Re:Good for them! (Score:5, Interesting)
since they still sell 2600 it'smore likely it has something do do with this:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/04/30/1359214/microsoft-invests-300-million-in-nook-e-readers [slashdot.org]
big surprise
Re:Populist security sense? (Score:5, Interesting)
they screwed up the meaning not us, why should we come up with a new term because they are computer illiterate.