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Submission + - Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account (seclists.org) 2

Submitted by vivaoporto
vivaoporto writes: Gordon Lyon (better known as Fyodor, author of nmap and maintainer of the internet security resource sites insecure.org, nmap.org, seclists.org, and sectools.org) warns on the nmap development mailing list that the Sourceforge Nmap account was hijacked from him.

According to him the old Nmap project page (located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nmap/, screenshot) was changed to a blank page and its contents were moved to a new page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/nmap.mirror/, screenshot) which controlled by sf-editor1 and sf-editor3, in pattern mirroring the much discussed the takeover of GIMP-Win page discussed last week on Ars Technica, IT World and eventually this week Slashdot.

That happens after Sourceforge promises to stop "presenting third party offers for unmaintained SourceForge projects. At this time, we present third party offers only with a few projects where it is explicitly approved by the project developer, or if the project is already bundling third party offers."

To their credit Fyodor states that "So far they seem to be providing just the official Nmap files (as long as you don't click on the fake download buttons) and we haven't caught them trojaning Nmap the way they did with GIMP" but reiterates "that you should only download Nmap from our official SSL Nmap site: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnmap.org%2Fdownload.html"
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Submission + - Utah to Teach USA is a Republic, not a Democracy (sltrib.com) 1

Submitted by 0ryan0
0ryan0 writes: The Salt Lake Tribune reports here that Utah lawmakers passed a bill today to force public school teachers to teach that the USA is a republic, not a democracy.

. . . because a Democracy would have Democrats in it.

Comment Re:Just how slow are perl, ruby and python? (Score 1) 583

by RPoet (#34214982) Attached to: The Coming War Over the Future of Java

Quoting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_performance#Comparison_to_other_languages:

  • 1-4 times slower than compiled languages such as C or C++
  • close to other Just-in-time compiled languages such as C#
  • much higher than languages without an effective native-code compiler (JIT or AOT), such as Perl, Ruby, PHP and Python.

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