Comment by orblivion

8 years ago

Scary looking headline on a discussion forum with instructions to perform a task that the average user would not really understand, with no explanation of attack vector or even consequences for any user who doesn't want to take the time (and energy, frankly at this point) to follow security news.

I'm pretty close to not caring anymore. I hope somebody figures out how to at least fix the security news infrastructure, if fixing security is still a ways off.

EDIT: Scratch that, I assume attack vector is a browser since they mentioned JavaScript.

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bcaa7f3a8bbc  8 years ago

This is not security news at all. This is Theo de Raadt's personal E-mail sent to the OpenBSD development mailing list for system developers. It is never intended for the consumption by the general public.

  • orblivion  7 years ago

    Hah, okay. I'm not familiar with OpenBSD so I didn't know who Theo was. Well, that would be good to know, let's say, on the HN headline.

    Thanks!