Category Archives: Software

NTP and git client vulnerabilities

Git client vulnerabilities on case-insensitive filesystems: https://github.com/blog/1938-vulnerability-announced-update-your-git-clients NTPd vulnerabilities announced: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/852879 OSX and MS Windows users, start by updating your github apps and plugins and then your regular command-line git client. NTP fixes still pending for most platforms.

Oracle v. Google: APIs Ruled NOT Copyrightable

Bigger than the trial jury’s rejection of Oracle’s patent claims against Android, Judge Aslup has further ruled that no API is copyrightable.  Groklaw again with the goods: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120531173633275 From the commentary: The sky has been full of FUD about this … Continue reading