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Well shit. Looks like a lot of patching inbound next week.

Archive: https://archive.today/J11ah

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>"Looks like there's a storm brewing, and it's not good news," writes ancient Slashdot reader jd. "Whether or not the bugs are classically security defects or not, this is extremely bad PR for the Linux and Open Source community. It's not clear from the article whether this affects other Open Source projects, such as FreeBSD." From a report:

Well shit. Looks like a lot of patching inbound next week. Archive: https://archive.today/J11ah From the post: >>"Looks like there's a storm brewing, and it's not good news," writes ancient Slashdot reader jd. "Whether or not the bugs are classically security defects or not, this is extremely bad PR for the Linux and Open Source community. It's not clear from the article whether this affects other Open Source projects, such as FreeBSD." From a report:
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Yeah, A lot of security researchers do exactly this. They say "I'm going public with this in 1 month".

It is amazing how many dev's/companies just don't care and won't fix it until it could publicly cause them a lost of $$$ or respect in a community.