Dear me, if I only know this story from reading here, I would have thought this was a result of Ubuntu developers removing the codes etc., and that the title of the article was incorrect.
Absolutely no mention of the fact that the problem had originated nearly 2 years ago, from Debian on which Ubuntu and others are based. How the second last paragraph on Ubuntu has anything to do with the actual story is beyond me.
While Ubuntu is argubly the most popular distro. around, a lot of its end-user probably don't use functionality that would be affected by the flaw. The bigger problem is it being in Debian which is used by a lot of more traditional and techie end-user which does use those functionality and are affected by it.
Absolutely no mention of the fact that the problem had originated nearly 2 years ago, from Debian on which Ubuntu and others are based. How the second last paragraph on Ubuntu has anything to do with the actual story is beyond me.
While Ubuntu is argubly the most popular distro. around, a lot of its end-user probably don't use functionality that would be affected by the flaw. The bigger problem is it being in Debian which is used by a lot of more traditional and techie end-user which does use those functionality and are affected by it.
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