Re: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro?

2017-07-15 Thread Ryan Carboni
https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/linux-kernel-security-needs-fixing/ Based on the number of concurrent discovered bugs, at least a few. Statistical techniques won't work when it is only discovered bugs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias But the fact that severe bugs are in a d

The innumerable connections that various nonprofit organizations have to the national security state

2017-07-15 Thread Ryan Carboni
I should give some credit to leftist conspiracy twitter, but that might be problematic. Still, the proof is not hard to find, which just makes it all rather depressing. Obviously connection number one is they still are nonprofits. People live at the mercy of the state to a greater degree than they

Re: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro?

2017-07-15 Thread juan
> and not to mention the coming tsunami of grossly insecure devices > that will be hitched to the Internet of Things. ah cute pentagon propangada - the terrist are gonna attack the fridges that the fucktards connect to the interwebz > that will affect the safety and well-being

Re: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro?

2017-07-15 Thread Steve Kinney
On 07/15/2017 04:54 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:22:32AM -0400, John Newman wrote: >> Bugs that already have some PoC or other code to exploit the issue? Or >> the sum total of all exploitable bugs, discovered and undiscovered? >> >> The first case should be relatively

Re: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro?

2017-07-15 Thread Ryan Carboni
https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/linux-kernel-security-needs-fixing/ The Linux kernel today faces an unprecedented safety crisis. Much like when Ralph Nader famously told the American public that their cars were "unsafe at any speed" back in 1965, numerous security developers told the 2016

Re: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro?

2017-07-15 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:22:32AM -0400, John Newman wrote: > Bugs that already have some PoC or other code to exploit the issue? Or > the sum total of all exploitable bugs, discovered and undiscovered? > > The first case should be relatively small with a very current > release.. the second case