The NSA has made both Microsoft and Apple withhold security patches to make their enemies vulnerable, but also makes the general populace vulnerable to these issues, which can or even has been continuously exploited by hacker groups under nation state actors who considers the US enemy.
So yes, they should be held liable and sued for not disclosing vulnerabilities to the world at large, because keeping it secret is inherently stupid and self defeatist.
Sure, that may be true. But I am not an international lawyer, so I can’t really speak to that point.
CVEs should be taken with an approach that the cve does matter, but that adding your own exposure to it is the only way to measure its impact on you.
This is a PXE boot environment vuln, so most of the self-hosting community itself probably doesn’t have this enabled at all. A person who does is likely very aware that PXE is already dangerously easy to misconfigure, especially in the days of remote init methods over https, which can at least be layered with other security solutions.
The NSA has made both Microsoft and Apple withhold security patches to make their enemies vulnerable, but also makes the general populace vulnerable to these issues, which can or even has been continuously exploited by hacker groups under nation state actors who considers the US enemy.
So yes, they should be held liable and sued for not disclosing vulnerabilities to the world at large, because keeping it secret is inherently stupid and self defeatist.
Sure, that may be true. But I am not an international lawyer, so I can’t really speak to that point.
CVEs should be taken with an approach that the cve does matter, but that adding your own exposure to it is the only way to measure its impact on you.
This is a PXE boot environment vuln, so most of the self-hosting community itself probably doesn’t have this enabled at all. A person who does is likely very aware that PXE is already dangerously easy to misconfigure, especially in the days of remote init methods over https, which can at least be layered with other security solutions.