On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:02:31 -0600, Bear Bottoms wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:10:32 -0600, Sebastian G. <seppi@seppig.de> wrote:
>
>> George Orwell wrote:
>>
>>> amounts to "if the sun explodes and the moon turns
>>> purple, and time begins to travel backward, there's an insignificant
>>> chance that the conditions will be right for something that may or may
>>> not even be possible".
>>
>>
>> Bullshit. It's trivial to exploit it for crashing the system, that's
>> actually how I found this vulnerability in first place.
>>
>>> Not every buffer is a potential overflow folks.
>>
>>
>> But a write to arbitrary kernel-mode memory surely is.
>
> Let me try to understand this. Being such a proclaimed expert in these
> matters, why are you here in a freeware newsgroup? What is your purpose?
> If not TrueCrypt, what then? What would you recommend as a viable free
> alternative that is much better? ...and why?

Truecrypt is freeware, you DoltBare and just because these guys talk over
your head doesn't mean they aren't allowed in YOUR Bareland.
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