On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 21:01 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Dave Feustel wrote: > > There is a new linux program for watching tv from worldwide sources. > > The program is available from livestation.com. It is a 77k line open > > source bourne shell script. Is there any reasonable way to check it > > out for exploits? > > If it were a 77,000 line shell script, there would be nothing > reasonable about it. :) > > It's not actually such a beast. It is a shell script that extracts > the binary files and installs them. And it does not appear to be open > source, so the answer to your question is: no, there is no reasonable > way to check this software for exploits. The license agreement also > has the standard proprietary boilerplate that states you may not > reverse engineer, decompile, etc., the software. > > I wouldn't bother with it. But then, I don't bother much with TV in > the first place. ;) Maybe run it inside a VM? poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
