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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Lunduke's video on this latest issue
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 21:48:28 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:01:14 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> When the problem was revealed, it truly sounded like the fix would be
> worse than the problem.

It seems like the high rating was based purely on the consequences of 
exploiting the bug, not taking into account how easy or difficult it might 
be to mitigate.