To get to the certificate with which you THEN can attack devices remotely. I.e. the attacker needs one device. And the skill to extract the certificate and the willingness to abuse it.
One of each and then the 613k devices in the tested region are exposed.
Yeah makes sense! I find it weird personally that I can go “oh yeah 7mio that’s not a lot” but at the same time “2 bucks for an ice cream scoop are you out of your fucking mind?!”
With the author and de facto owner being a translator who says it isn’t enough. He is dependent on engagement more than anything else I suspect.
To be clear: I’m not suspecting him of having been bought to write this - but he clearly has a hate boner for anything AI, isn’t from a software background and wrote an opinion piece with several statements that a re factually incorrect to reinforce a point he’s trying to create to get exactly posts like this.
“AI is a tool for maintainers” says Linus and everyone’s losing their shit it seems.
I wonder whose money is behind this article, redefining some of the biggest overall tech companies in the world, all highly dependent on Linux, as “AI companies”.
Just curious, what makes you think this is a lot?
Red cross, doctors without borders, Firefox are three that jumped into my mind. I don’t know their legal constructs in detail but Médecins Sans Frontières in their finance report 2024 described half a billion in available assets.
The Linux Foundation is quite small compared to the amount of projects they coordinate in my opinion and I’m surprised to read that you perceive this amount as a lot - that’s why I’m curious where your feeling comes from! (Note: im trying to learn,not bias to “it’s not a lot” is quite weird to me as well, talking about millions of dollars after all)
I’m so loving it although I’m still having to correct me on even the easiest shit (few hours ago l: invocation with an env var set tona path - “oh right spaces, oh right, path must be in quotes”.
Still love it, just annoyed by my habit brain