| ▲ | dwedge 7 hours ago |
| When the exploit is an advertisement for an exploit detection company, not doing the right thing is a bad look |
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| ▲ | dgellow 6 hours ago | parent [-] |
| The worst thing would be to exploit or sell it for profit. Instead of that, publicizing the exploit is closer to neutral–good in my books, that did trigger a really quick reaction from the different actors to patch their kernels and systems |
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| ▲ | ori_b 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Imagine how much quicker the distros would have reacted if they were given a heads up a month ago. But, sure, I guess kudos to this company for not being actively criminal, and merely bumblingly incompetent and overly eager to get their marketing pitch out the door. | | |
| ▲ | x4132 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | to which distros? how do you ensure fairness? Do you report this to the maintainer of Red Star OS (north korea)? The kernel security team was given the heads up a month ago. At that point it is their decision. |
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