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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by gnufied on Thursday June 28, 2018 @11:38AM (#17417778)
> Linux on a laptop has always been unstable, insecure, hot and noisy.

Wait -- insecure? How? You mean full disk encryption? I am typing this from thinkpad with full disk encryption and SELinux enabled Fedora. Sure there are problems with Linux on laptop but even if you don't have SELinux enabled - security has never been an issue (or no worse than Windows and OSX).

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by fauigerzigerk on Thursday June 28, 2018 @12:10PM (#17418109)
What I was specifically referring to there is that Ubuntu's NetworkManager (in combination with Open VPN) had (or still has?) a DNS leak right out of the box for years.
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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by reitanqild on Thursday June 28, 2018 @02:02PM (#17419116)
Am I underestimating that or is that are really small thing compared to "press-enter-twice-for-root" on one of the two big commercial OSes?
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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by fauigerzigerk on Thursday June 28, 2018 @03:15PM (#17419664)
I think you are underestimating the importance of fixing glaring security bugs ASAP when they become public knowledge instead of denying or ignoring them for years.

Also, a DNS leak is potentially much more dangerous for a minority of people than any locally exploitable bug.

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