If people would start to click on the links in articles they link to then this FUD would've already stopped. 'Original' article linked to:
http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic...-h3a83th8/
Time between issue detected and confirmed that's a non issue for A64 BSP kernel by longsleep: 5 MINUTES
http://irclog.whitequark.org/linux-sunxi...9#16314390 (look at the timestamps).
Time it took to start the usual Allwinner bashing using wrong claims all Allwinner devices would be affected: Over a week.
And BTW: It's not a backdoor, it's just a nice local privileges escalation
(05-11-2016, 08:52 AM)tkaiser Wrote: [ -> ]If people would start to click on the links in articles they link to then this FUD would've already stopped. 'Original' article linked to: http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic...-h3a83th8/
Time between issue detected and confirmed that's a non issue for A64 BSP kernel by longsleep: 5 MINUTES http://irclog.whitequark.org/linux-sunxi...9#16314390 (look at the timestamps).
Time it took to start the usual Allwinner bashing using wrong claims all Allwinner devices would be affected: Over a week.
And BTW: It's not a backdoor, it's just a nice local privileges escalation
Wasn't aware of the armbian site, though it's now bookmarked; thank you. Obviously wasn't aware of the irc logs though it's nice to be able to reference them; thank you agian.
Title was copy/pasted from the register article; deliberately not edited as I didn't want to be accused of prejudice.
tldr: nothing to see, no excitement, move along - which is probably the best outcome if slightly less exciting than I was hoping for
This is very bad.
But it sheds some light on why Allwinner refuses to cooperate with open source...