The alarmist politics of the media omits these vital points. It also blames “Linux” for an assignment on Microsoft’s GitHub. Yes, also systemd.
And “since Poettering is the ultimate cause of the current PR and security disaster,” notes one associate, “and he’s officially hired at Microsoft, in addition to all the years he worked unofficially for them in opposition to Linux. . . “
That’s Microsoft on many levels.
Don’t be too alarmed.
For example, users of SLE*, RHEL, CentOS/Rocky/Oracle’s Unbreakable, and Debian are not affected at all.
How many other people use a beta edition of Fedora, Tumbleweed, or the latest edition of Arch?
Controlling the narrative, communications/language of the world:
Microsoft HEART bleeds Linux.
If no one has yet known about intentional sabotage or a call from a user who intentionally did it, is this a “backdoor”?Or a false statement?
Microsoft, which has genuine (deliberate!) backdoors, likes to misuse this term in relation to “Linux. “Several months ago we gave some examples, for example, [1, 2]. █