Use this tag on questions that are specifically about heterogeneous environments such as mixed Windows and Linux or AS/400 and Solaris.
Questions tagged [cross-platform]
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Does WannaCry infect Linux?
After reading this question, now, I am wondering if WannaCry malware can infect Linux OS especially Ubuntu.
One of the answers talked about SMB2 and windows. Does it mean a Linux based computer is safe? (Beside the side effects, Wine, and being a…
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With Ubuntu on Windows 10, could exploits and malware that work on Ubuntu (or related distros) work on Windows?
So apparently Hell has finally and completely frozen over: the next major update for Windows 10 will be able to natively run Bash, related tools, and even some broader set of Linux binaries/programs from the Ubuntu repositories.
From technical info…
mostlyinformed
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How is an ODBC connection encrypted?
Most conversations about ODBC are Microsoft centric, but the protocol is often used in heterogeneous environements, such as a Windows client connecting to a database on an *nix server. While my question is open ended, I'm most interested in the…
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Why did "terminal commands" never get a version of SQL "parameterized queries"?
I was taught horrible bad practice when I initially "learned" SQL, which baked in user-submitted input with quotes and attempted to "escape" this (in the beginning, I didn't even escape it at all...). I then had to spend many years unlearning this,…
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Python - ctypes.cast function call outputs Segmentation Fault error message
Background:
Writing a proof of concept of a twitter C&C inspired by Prof Viviek of SPSE similiar to twittor and the project includes a functionality of injecting shellcode and executing it within the python's program. However I wanted to make the…
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Need a cross-platform method of generating near truly random numbers
I have been working on an app that uses a combination of different encryption methods; some of them are libraries, and the most important ones are my own implementations. The app is cross-platform that are compiled natively on desktop (Linux,…
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Why isn't free software signed with self-signed certificates?
A majority of free software (in particular, Linux ports for Windows) are not signed.
As I understand it, it is quite easy to create a self-signed CA, and sign the software. Distribution would be handled by major free software players, like KDE,…
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