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On 07/05/2024 23:01, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> I don’t think I said “panacea”. But it’s pretty obvious that eliminating
> them would close down an entire attack class. That’s worth a lot, and
> steps toward it should be welcomed.

How many serious attacks have been successfully launched using 'sudo'?

Anyone *with nothing better to do*  can spend man years solving 
*theoretical* problems that  really do not exist in the real world.

One perhaps might formulate a hypothesis that Poettering has been the 
object of a 'lateral arabesque' in order to give idle hands something to 
do, that cannot possibly have impacts beyond a small area of localised 
fallout....

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