ElliotRodger

Re:IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991) on Saturday July 05, 2014 @02:51AM (#7991237)

Operation Bojinka in the mid 1990s, involving Ramzi Yousef and KSM himself, was a similar plot:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojinka_plot

"The Path to 9/11" has a few historical inaccuracies but it provides a good dramatization of the key events in the 90s that led up to 9/11. It's well worth watching.

Re:Technical Analysis Of The GnuTLS Hello Vulnerability on Sunday June 01, 2014 @07:54PM (#7831183)

> Two weeks ago, an interesting commit appeared in the GnuTLS repository.

This statement gives the impression that the code was quietly fixed without disclosing the vulnerability. In reality, the fix was done on 5/23, but it was not rebased and committed to the public repo until the bug was formally announced and the updated releases were ready:

    commit 688ea6428a432c39203d00acd1af0e7684e5ddfd
    Author:     Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[email protected]>
    AuthorDate: Fri May 23 19:50:31 2014 +0200
    Commit:     Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[email protected]>
    CommitDate: Thu May 29 19:00:01 2014 +0200
    
    Prevent memory corruption due to server hello parsing.