full-disclosure - Re: Mr. Magorium's Wunderbar Emporium

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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:14:52 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Pavel Kankovsky <peak@...o.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Mr. Magorium's Wunderbar Emporium

On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Brad Spengler wrote:

> "Congrats" Linus on screwing over all the vendors and every Linux user 
> by forcing disclosure of the bug before vendors could ship out updated 
> kernels.

The bug has been public since the first vulnerable version of the code was
released eight years ago. In other words, everyone has been screwed over
for eight years but no one paid attention to it until recently. This is
THE BAD THING. The fact kiddies may have learned about it a few days
earlier is mere annoyance.

-- 
Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak                          / Jeremiah 9:21        \
"For death is come up into our MS Windows(tm)..." \ 21th century edition /

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