Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use...
by Dylan16807 on Friday January 05, 2018 @02:25PM
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> Sorry what? 99.999999% of all the malware that exists and has existed today, is/was closed source. Compare that to the other 0.0000001% that got once or twice into opensource and was removed as soon as it got detected.
There is plenty of open-source malware, and most closed source software is not malware.
You seem to be conflating "is in a trusted open source distribution, listed as non-malware" with mere "open source". Code that is openly malicious, or has never been peer-reviewed, is still perfectly capable of being open source.
> I've never talked about (1), of course my comment was not targetted to server owners but by normal workstation owners that only have one user.
That's cool but the workstation use case is not why people are freaking out. The workstation is the place where you don't even need this bug to take over and ruin everything, because it's all under one account anyway.
Saying it's a "way to not be affected by these bugs" is pretty myopic.
There is plenty of open-source malware, and most closed source software is not malware.
You seem to be conflating "is in a trusted open source distribution, listed as non-malware" with mere "open source". Code that is openly malicious, or has never been peer-reviewed, is still perfectly capable of being open source.
> I've never talked about (1), of course my comment was not targetted to server owners but by normal workstation owners that only have one user.
That's cool but the workstation use case is not why people are freaking out. The workstation is the place where you don't even need this bug to take over and ruin everything, because it's all under one account anyway.
Saying it's a "way to not be affected by these bugs" is pretty myopic.