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Re:Essential Phone, available now by ryanlol on Saturday August 19, 2017 @07:36AM (#15052813)
>If there's a serious vulnerability that actually needs your attention, you will read about it in the news

No, this is fucking stupid. Most security related bugs get zero visibility, Linux for example still has a policy to quietly patch them.

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Re:Essential Phone, available now by throwaway613834 on Saturday August 19, 2017 @07:43AM (#15052844)
> No, this is fucking stupid.

Well, now I'm definitely convinced...

> Most security related bugs get zero visibility, Linux for example still has a policy to quietly patch them.

Most security bugs don't need your attention either, because they don't have widespread exploits.

Read the prior comments; don't just curse in reply to a single sentence while ignoring all the prior context.

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Re:Essential Phone, available now by ryanlol on Saturday August 19, 2017 @07:46AM (#15052851)
>Most security bugs don't need your attention either, because they don't have widespread exploits.

But if you do anything interesting with your life this simply isn't an useful argument.

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