Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux
by wodenokoto on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:25AM
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Yes and no. I think parent is moving towards an interesting point.
Why haven’t these been operationalized? NK resorted to social engineering in their latest bitcoin heist despite there been a thousand holes in the system.
To me, this points towards these holes are near impossible for humans and traditional tooling to find and Pandora’s box has been opened, or that these holes are not open to abuse in practice.
Why haven’t these been operationalized? NK resorted to social engineering in their latest bitcoin heist despite there been a thousand holes in the system.
To me, this points towards these holes are near impossible for humans and traditional tooling to find and Pandora’s box has been opened, or that these holes are not open to abuse in practice.