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Old 29th July 2017
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Systemd wins top gong for 'lamest vendor' in Pwnie security awards
--The Register, 28 July 2017

... the lamest vendor response award went to Systemd supremo Lennart Poettering for his controversial, and perhaps questionable, handling of the following bugs in everyone's favorite init replacement: 5998, 6225, 6214, 5144, and 6237 that we covered here.

"Where you are dereferencing null pointers, or writing out of bounds, or not supporting fully qualified domain names, or giving root privileges to any user whose name begins with a number, there's no chance that the CVE number will referenced in either the change log or the commit message," reads the Pwnie nomination for Systemd, referring to the open-source project's allergy to assigning CVE numbers.
"But CVEs aren't really our currency any more, and only the lamest of vendors gets a Pwnie!"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07..._pwnie_awards/
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Systemd wins top gong for 'lamest vendor' in Pwnie security awards
--The Register, 28 July 2017
I tried out CentOS for a few days, but, quickly reverted back to Slackware. I'm happy to be systemd free with Slackware and OpenBSD.
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I thought the day was April 1 when I first read the thread title!
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