Shamefully, the inetutils project hasn’t actually released a fixed version of their software (at least at the time of publishing).
Perhaps I am just unlucky in my interactions, but I feel like this entitlement is too common among software security people. Note that I see zero return in spending time working on Inetutils, and I find other projects I work on more interesting.
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-03/msg... [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-03/msg... [3] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/12/4
Thanks to all of our heroes, op included.
But this is probably forgiven as just sensationalism in writing, which is all too common. Not to excuse the author, but these types of writeups tend to drift into name calling and finger pointing a little too soon.
"Shamefully" is definitely the wrong word here, for sure.
Why should we forgive sensationalism in writing at all?
i have not seen a decent writeup in one of these clickbait things these ppl push out.
just ignore these types of ppl. its fine to fix the bugs ofc but what i mean is, ignore their attitudes. its a kids' attitude to life they keep
> That was so long ago that RISC was still a distant dream.
Yeah ARM would like to have a word with you. I'd been using RISC on the desktop for about five years by then and I was not an early adopter.
Or is there a tradeoff?
Fewer ancient holes like this for their hackers but wide open access to anyone who installs codex or claude code?
... if you hold it just right, and let the light of the full moon shine through it on a particular day, while you send a carefully-crafted packet through the right brand of NIC over cables forged by long-forgotten smiths.
Ahem
Of course if you count the 6502 as a RISC chip (if you squint a bit, Page Zero RAM sure does look like 256 8-bit registers to me!) then UK schools had RISC desktops for over a decade before then!