Am Dienstag, den 15.05.2007, 21:30 +0400 schrieb Dmitry Butskoy: > nodata wrote: > >>> Alexander, I am really sorry about this. My appologies. I did not > >>> know that it was April 1st joke. I read this just recently and took > >>> it seriously. Probably my knowledege about modern Russia is not > >>> adequate anymore. I left it ten years ago. > >>> > >>> > >>>> The case described below is April, 1st joke which was created by > >>>> www.securitylab.ru portal (a good one!) but went largely unnoticed until > >>>> someone showed it to general IT media without linking to the original. > >>>> > >>>> http://www.securitylab.ru/news/293577.php > >>>> > >>>> > >> What do you speak about now? > >> > >> To be clearly understood: > >> The Russian case described is not "a joke", unfortunately. > >> > >> Certainly, it is (still) not wide-spread, but I hear about such a threat > >> at each RHEL-related seminar now. A user ask "what about if I just > >> download from Internet", the "official" answer is "it is dangerous, > >> because your computers can be confiscated etc...", and "if you don't > >> want such troubles, buy (our) box with some license paper..." > >> > >> > > > > Did you experience this yourself first hand, or hear it off someone at a > > conference? Did they experience it first hand? > > nswer > > > Oops, it seems you ask about the joke, but I answer about the actual > troubles. Surely my post above is not about the joke :) > > > ~buc > I was asking about real life. There seems to be some confusion between the joke and real life, and I wanted to find out if you had first hand experience, or were passing on information from other people who had been fooled by the joke... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
