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1. jeffbee · 1790903372 · focus · HN ↗

   Linux has never, at any point in history, lacked flaws that could be exploited to escalate privileges. The only question has been how well-known the flaws were, and when. The count of latent local privilege escalation bugs has never been zero.

   1. zahlman · 1790934636 · focus · HN ↗

      Seems like a reasonable assumption, but a pretty strong assertion. How could anyone possibly know?

      1. jeffbee · 1790947588 · focus · HN ↗

         The coverage of known vulnerabilities is complete, from the beginning of time to nearly the present day.

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