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Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
That's because illuminating security vulnerabilities is VERY GENERALLY a good thing for an open source community driven software that can be more agile than closed and private code bases that are GENERALLY entrenched in a corporate structure slowed by all of the inertia inherent in those systems.
Don't like all Linux patches have to be emailed directly to chappy for him to personally check?
wtf does this mean?
No, that's just for development discussion and code versioning. Nothing the end-user needs to touch or see.
End users update their system with commands/through interfaces or they receive automatic updates, depending on their system.
We're talking about patching the kernel though.