Looks valid, but I wish she's been more verbose in her prior post, or worked with maintainers on a fix prior to sounding the alarm.
I feel like this stirred up a lot of panic in some places, alerted bad actors to a potential vuln, while not actually giving the maintainers time to address this.
This particular person has built up an enormous reservoir of trust and goodwill in the Linux Admin community. A lot of people figured she was under some sort of NDA, and this was the most she could do legally on short notice; given the source, and their history, this wasn't an unreasonable concern.
Coupled with atop being extremely trivial to just eliminate in an environment, it made good sense to play this one cautiously if you're a pragmatic admin.
With all that said, she clearly erred here and I think spent some of that good will and trust.
Are you getting stupider? You had plenty of time to figure out who this person was when you made your last ill-informed comments on the subhject here, and here.
random_passerby_12@reddit
She pointed out to me that this service is being executed as a 'root', which is reason enough to remove it from the server.
devoopsies@reddit (OP)
A followup to yesterday's cryptic atop warning.
Looks valid, but I wish she's been more verbose in her prior post, or worked with maintainers on a fix prior to sounding the alarm.
I feel like this stirred up a lot of panic in some places, alerted bad actors to a potential vuln, while not actually giving the maintainers time to address this.
sprremix@reddit
Just do not take cryptic warning seriously from a stranger on the internet. Seems like good, logical advice in any case :)
devoopsies@reddit (OP)
This particular person has built up an enormous reservoir of trust and goodwill in the Linux Admin community. A lot of people figured she was under some sort of NDA, and this was the most she could do legally on short notice; given the source, and their history, this wasn't an unreasonable concern.
Coupled with atop being extremely trivial to just eliminate in an environment, it made good sense to play this one cautiously if you're a pragmatic admin.
With all that said, she clearly erred here and I think spent some of that good will and trust.
IridescentKoala@reddit
Who is this person?
spudlyo@reddit
Are you getting stupider? You had plenty of time to figure out who this person was when you made your last ill-informed comments on the subhject here, and here.