Software Licenses
The license under which the Varnish HTTP cache is released
What is the (2-clause/Simplified) BSD License?
The current date is printed to the second.
What is `date`
Creator of C++
Who is Bjarne Stroustrup?
Devious AI which nearly wipes out the human race in a nuclear judgement day
What is SKYNET (Terminator)
"You can't run your shellcode if you can't find it"
What is ASLR (Adress Space Layout Randomization)
The license under which all text content of Wikipedia is available under as of 2009
What is the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)?
The octal mode replaces the mode of each of the files
What is `chmod`
Guilty of creating PHP
Who is Rasmus Lerdorf?
This 'circular' AI loves to kill off astronauts in space
HAL 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey)
This mitigation is inspired by a mitigation used by coal miners to detect gas leaks
What is a stack canary
The license under which the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is distributed
What is the GNU General Public License (GPLv3+) with GCC Runtime Library Exception?
Lists the name, typewriter channel, and login time foreach current UNIX user.
What is `who`
Creator of m4
Who is Brian Kernighan or Dennis Ritchie?
The personal AI butler for Mr Tony Stark
JARVIS (Iron Man)
This "mitigation" fixes SQL injections (properly)
What is prepared statements
The license under which the source code for Microsoft's .NET Core project is released
What is the MIT license?
Hangs up the phone on the typewriter which uses it.
What is `hup`
Creator of FORTRAN
Who is John Backus?
This failsafe AI kills off all the inhabitants of a secret underground lab, to ensure the zombie-virus within does not get out
THE RED QUEEN (Resident Evil)
This mitigation caused ROP to be developed
Non-executable stack (or: NX-bit / W^X / DEP)
The license under which MongoDB (the database, not the drivers) is published
What is the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPLv3) (with proprietary duel-licensing)?
Produces binary paper tape in UNIX standard format, which includes checksums and a zero--suppression feature.
What is dbppt
Creator of Brainfuck
Who is Urban Muller?
This bald, 'female' AI tries to charm and outsmart its creators for freedom, in this 2014 oscar-winning movie
Ava (Ex Machina)
This mitigation promises to prevent all control flow hijacking attacks
CPI (Code Pointer Integrity)