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A nasty local kernel vulnerability

A nasty local kernel vulnerability

Posted Feb 27, 2013 10:21 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: A nasty local kernel vulnerability by hummassa
Parent article: A nasty local kernel vulnerability

When PaX && Brad "cry wolf", they are actually showing you that your mate can outrun you, so you're bear snack!

Nope. They "actually showing" that your boots have scuffs — but then refuse to say if your boots are lightly affected or are ready to fall apart at the seams. You can stop to try to mend them (which places you closer to the bear but gives you hope that you'll be able to run faster in the future) or you can ignore them and hope boots will hold till the next town.

67 billion a year in the US only, according to the FBI in 2006.

Which is less then 1% of GDP and in the same ballpack as $83 billion from patent trolls. IOW: yes, it's a problem, but it's not the problem and it's certainly not something you need to spend all your resources on.


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