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by sirdarckcat 1567 days ago
for what is worth, the link gregkh pointed you to explains the answer for your first 2 points.

Your last point is wrong. Simple example, which of the following thousand bugs are exploitable? https://syzkaller.appspot.com/upstream

If you can exploit them, you can earn 20,000 to 90,000 USD on https://google.github.io/kctf/vrp

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I've read the post before, I've seen the talk, and frankly it's been addressed a number of times. It's the same silly nonsense that they've been touting for decades ie: "a bug is a bug".
They don’t need to label it security even, just a “upgrade now, upgrade soon, upgrade whenever”.

But they clearly don’t want nor care about making that call (and even more clearly basically expect everyone to run the latest kernel at all times (and if you run into a bug there no doubt you’ll be told to not run the latest kernels).