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Re:51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities by ComodoHacker on Thursday December 17, 2020 @11:32AM (#25457107)
>you getting 0-dayed when the most popular implementation has a vulnerability

vs getting hit when your vulnerable implementation becomes popular. Not an obvious choice indeed.

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Re:51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities by incrudible on Thursday December 17, 2020 @11:57AM (#25457388)
> vs getting hit when your vulnerable implementation becomes popular.

Which is not going to happen, because there's no point in publishing something that is tailored to your specific purpose.

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Re:51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities by ivanche on Thursday December 17, 2020 @12:55PM (#25458130)
This reminds me of one Finnish student publishing some sort of OS kernel in 1991 or so which supported only his PC-compatible machine...
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Re:51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities by incrudible on Thursday December 17, 2020 @01:04PM (#25458277)
Of course, who could rule out that a crappy little domain-specific parser turns into a trillion dollar industry? One should let that remote possibility guide the decision making at all times.
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