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Critical Security Hole in Linux Wi-Fi
thisispurefud writes "A flaw has been found in a major Linux Wi-Fi driver that can allow an attacker to run malicious code and take control of a laptop, even when it is not on a Wi-Fi network."
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There is a huge propaganda (AKA PR) machine for microsoft powerful enough to keep most users (>50%) on windows even if microsoft stopped upgrading and kept us at windows 98.
Its understandable that anybody using alternatives has to explain or promote their alternatives because:
A) the ignorant ask them WHY
B) their competence is questioned (it must be the best if everybody uses it right??)
C) little is reported unless its negative(free) except for paying customers (advertisers or large chunk of the readers)
D) a small user base hurts any platform and increases how often they have to put up with A and B
What we should be highlighting is the horrible hardware vendors who give next to no help and often write poor quality drivers in general. This problem is a windows issue as well.
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Linux is fucked by this kind of thing because (unless a lot changed in the last 12 months) there are no distros that silently install updates without any user intervention being required. Even distros like Ubuntu will pop up a balloon and require you to type in a password to install the updates. But we already know from experience with Windows that nothing short of a fully automatic system will do. If Linux had the popularity of Windows today, this exploit would still be being used 3 years from now.