Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Warning - Serious 'sudo' Flaw Compromises Security Date: 19 Oct 2025 19:10:51 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <10cdluk$pc59$2@dont-email.me> <1NucnW53DZrMOHH1nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <10cihiq$23kb8$6@dont-email.me> <10cios3$25sim$2@dont-email.me> <10cj667$29n96$5@dont-email.me> <10cjf5m$2cnh5$2@dont-email.me> <10co09b$3jj2s$11@dont-email.me> <10cqhde$a1mj$4@dont-email.me> <2smdnYMrA9D3Y2_1nZ2dnZfqnPoAAAAA@giganews.com> <10cvnsr$1nij3$4@dont-email.me> <10d2eq5$2dnk0$9@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 4oV6PaMYCXs8AosT0lh3Dg3PNptw2/Ua494zGlJ2Oq77duN3GJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:ByvxND02Ez49QoQFq+/xxCoV0NI= sha256:z/RME2C4Gd6U4DAdZ6n3EdkmMQRgYC46nD94oJ5IBHY= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76382 On Sun, 19 Oct 2025 11:33:41 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 18/10/2025 19:40, rbowman wrote: >> On Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:50:19 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> >>> And that is the crux. A bit of theory that works will get you there >>> quicker than random tinkering. >> >> 'That works' is the important phrase. Fleishmann and Pons thought they >> were on to something. > > And that is the whole point of science, if it doesn't consistently give > much better answers than random it isn't science. > > Unfortunately that covers a great deal of 'popular science' “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. When someone says ‘science teaches such and such’, he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn’t teach it; experience teaches it” Richard Feynman