Linus Torvalds Apologizes For His Rude Behavior—Takes Time Off

What just happened would definitely gonna surprise you. Linus Torvalds—father of the Linux open-source operating system—finally admitted his behavior towards other developers in the Linux community was hurting people and Linux. In a surprising move this weekend, Torvalds apologized for insulting...

Ethernet Device Drivers Frame Padding - 'Etherleak' Infomation Leakage

!/usr/bin/perl -w etherleak, code that has been 5 years coming. On 04/27/2002, I disclosed on the Linux Kernel Mailing list, a vulnerability that would be come known as the 'etherleak' bug. In various situations an ethernet frame must be padded to reach a specific size or fall on a certain...