You know you’re getting into zealot territory when people are arguing semantics over the headline pointing to a zero authentication admin access vulnerability CVE that affects a double-digit percentage of users.
Thank you for the reality check. I like to assume people are coming from a certain baseline on HN, but I sometimes forget that certain topics have a passionate user base represented.
Nooope. Reread the thread from my comment up: they were arguing about whether that percentage of users warranted saying ‘probably’ in the headline. Nobody was even questioning the numbers at that point. Just people taking it at face value, getting defensive, and trying to minimize what it said.
Does it really? Digging up the data from example the 135k instances in the open reeks like bullshit, I would suspect several other claims are exaggerated as well.
> Digging up the data from example the 135k instances in the open reeks like bullshit, I would suspect several other claims are exaggerated as well.
Do you so stringently examine most CVEs? I’ll bet you don’t. Are you a big fan of this project? I’ll bet you are. Do you have any actual data to counter what they said or do you just sort of generally not vibe with it? If so, now would be a great time to break it out while this is still fresh. If not…
They are pointing out the data provided does not appear to be real. There is no credible link to this 135k number. They do not need to provide a number, as one does not appear to exist.