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throwaway81523last Sunday at 7:42 AM2 repliesview on HN

You weren't around for when they broke the OpenSSL random number generator for no good reason. That was back in 2008 and it created vulnerabilities that persist to this day. https://16years.secvuln.info/

I still use Debian but it's hard to forget stuff like that even after all these years.


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dotancohenlast Sunday at 9:50 AM

Though I agree with you, if that's the bar you're setting then Debian comes out far ahead of any other OS that I've ever used - Linux based or not. I can recall dozens of worse Windows bugs, most of which did not even affect me because I was not using Windows at the time. Mac has its share too.

jraphlast Sunday at 12:35 PM

What do you expect Debian to do today about this 17 years old incident?