Reply to post: No Shit, Sherlock, but ....... beware the woods where there be all manner of TEDdy Bears

Now-patched Ubuntu desktop vulnerability allows privilege escalation

amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

No Shit, Sherlock, but ....... beware the woods where there be all manner of TEDdy Bears

Although Backhouse said that this exploit is particularly easy to execute, he added that he does not want “to give you impression that Ubuntu is full of trivial security bugs; that’s not been my impression so far.”

Systems don't need to be full of security bugs, trivial or otherwise, whenever just a few untouchable, invisible and/or unknown ones can be exploited and executed particularly easily.

But such has been warned about long before now .........

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones. .... Donald Rumsfeld

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