Re: Is the sky falling? Or, ...
"As to the changed default re: cifs. Sounds good (belated)."
Silly me, I thought SMB and CIFS were part of Samba. And when Linus speaks of Linux, he's talking about the kernel. And while there were some security issues with Samba's SMBv1 that needed fixed recently, WannaCry affected Microsoft's implementation and not Samba's.