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Originally Posted by theducks
@Splat
I am all for a 'Heads Up' about potential problems, but you are taking it over the top. 
You join MR in 2006, make 90+ posts between then and now and tell Kovid that he must drop everything and secure the Linux distribution for maybe the 1 in 5000+ of those users that just might be running on a system that that possibility could exist
I think Kovid's list should forewarn those few affected users that the choice of system to run Calibre on should be considered. |
Yeah sure, linux user are minority, who cares
Well, I, as linux certainly care. it's tipical about there : hey why should kovid spend time on function X, i don't want / need it, so it's useless.
It seams to me that the exploit can only be used by someone actually in front of the computer. Fixing it would be nice, but not if it means breaking thing for us linux users. (No one i can't trust will touch my computer anyway.)
Not that I care about that particular issue, as i don't use calibre.