Kirk McKusick wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. As you note, the damage (or benefit :-) is
> done. Still I have sent an email to the editor at Spiegel notifying
> them of my copyright in the hopes that they will at least ask in the
> future.
>
> Kirk McKusick
Good idea. You might want to contact authors of that PDF paper too.
In case, as my browser still is fails on URL I posted earlier:
http://www.iseclab.org/papers/sonda-TR.pdf
I'll send you an off list copy of what I downloaded earlier
at 2nd Feb 18:14 TZ=GMT+01:00.
> =-=-=-=
>
> From: "Julian H. Stacey" <j...@berklix.com>
> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:30:29 +0100
> To: Christoph Kukulies <k...@kukulies.org>
> Subject: Re: our little daemon abused as symbol of the evil
> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Kirk McKusick <mckus...@mckusick.com>
> Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich
> Germany
>
> Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> > Look here:
> >
> > http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-51396-2.html
>
> ( Well spotted Christoph ! )
> For those that don't read German, tracing back,
> Text article starts here
> http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,675395,00.html
>
> That is in German,
> (some might like a translator web, eg http://babelfish.org )
> I did read the german article (but skipped graphics).
>
> Key paragraph:
> Es ist ein Horrorszenario für Datenschützer, was Thorsten
> Holz, Gilbert Wondracek, Engin Kirda und Christopher Kruegel
> in ihrem 15-seitigen Aufsatz beschreiben ( PDF-Datei hier,
> 803 KB): Die Experten vom Isec-Forschungslabor für
> IT-Sicherheit, einer Kooperation der Technischen Universität
> Wien, dem Institute Eurcom und der University of California,
> dokumentieren einen technisch eher simplen Angriff, der
> eine seit zehn Jahren bekannte Sicherheitslücke ausnutzt.
>
> In key para there I could click & download
> sonda-TR.pdf
> (though now I can't seem to redownload
> http://www.iseclab.org/papers/sonda-TR.pdf )
> A 15 page article in Engish.
> Page 4 uses the Firefox & BSD logos.
>
> I havent read that English [yet], but with it, any interested here
> can now read & form own opinions if it seems fair to use the Daemon
> logo, especially cc'd copyright holder of BSD daemon holder:
> Kirk McKusick <mckus...@mckusick.com>
>
> IMO The German article by weekly magazine Spiegel.de didnt really seem
> to have anything to do with BSD, they just copied the graphics.
>
> Personaly my 2c:
> Initial reaction was I'd be a happier if a generic PC graphic had
> been used in the spiegel.de web, but maybe its the price of fame,
> I guess tests were done using BSD, & Spiegel thought it was nice
> colourful graphic. (Politicians never looked good on British TV
> Spitting Image programme, but they learnt it was better to look
> bad there, & be talked about, than not seen, not recognised &
> ignored).
Cheers,
Julian
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