Re:Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot
by dvfjsdhgfv on Thursday January 11, 2018 @02:18AM
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That's close to perfect, indeed.
The drawbacks in this scenario are that (1) not everybody runs an SMTP server, (2) if it's open source (and if it's very popular, then it is), some other smart people will look for the bug and publish it for fame.
That's quite different from a backdoor built into a processor (although I really doubt Intel was really involved in any shady practices, it looks like they were not smart enough).
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Judging from the numerous decades old bugs recently found, the concept of many eyes needs to die.
And in the case of SMTP, it's basically a pinata of bugs for the last 30 years regardless of platform