Re: OT: What's up with the starship?

rurpy@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I admit I am totally flmmexed by your answer.
What does when the bug was introduced have to do with
anything?

oh, I thought your main concern was whether the packages available had been compromised, and that you asked if that was the reason an advisory
was released last week.

if someone has developed an exploit for the vulnerability, chances are that they'd attack more than just a single obscure and mostly abandoned server.

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