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  "path": "/t/two-more-major-linux-vulnerabilities-discovered-in-the-same-class-as-copy-fail/37746#post_11",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-10T16:10:28.000Z",
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  "textContent": "seize:\n\n> isn’t like these catastrophic exploits don’t exist on Windows MacOS either\n\nYes, you’re right to say that they do have catastrophic exploits. However, my point in saying this was that Windows and Mac are the cultural default. If the alternative doesn’t match what the cultural default provides, there are two things that this could happen:\n\n  1. The cultural paradigm shifts to reflect the fact that people actually prefer the alternative\n\n\n\nThis is the ideal case for Linux—that the public actually prefers Linux over Windows for some set of reasons.\n\n  2. The alternative remains only that: a cultural alternative\n\n\n\nThis is the less-than-ideal case. Linux remains only as an alternative that appeals to a niche community of desktop/laptop users.\n\nEven though all three operating systems have catastrophic exploits from time to time, two of them are given the status of “normal” and are part of everyday culture while the third one is neither. At least in the US. Maybe it is different in European countries. I remember seeing some institutional adoption of open-source tech, which is another metric that measures cultural adoption.\n\nseize:\n\n> I’m not sure how many people outside of online privacy and security spaces would be aware of, and care enough to move OSes when these critical OS vulnerabilities are found even if they did make the switch to Linux\n\nMoving from the cultural default to a cultural alternative takes a lot of intention. Meanwhile, moving from the alternative to the default is very easy and incentivised because there is less friction between you and the cultural and social world you inhabit. If there _were_ people who moved to Linux and found out that they were exploited or hacked, it’s not a matter of caring enough to switch. If I try a new food and it I don’t like how it tastes, I go back to eating the food I usually eat. But I take your point that a lot of people outside this space probably won’t be _aware_ that their devices were exploited.\n\nseize:\n\n> Linux already has MA’s adoption thanks to server/infrastructure market so there is already significant incentive from various parties to find vulnerabilities, create exploits and patch said vulnerabilities and exploits\n\nYou’re completely right. I forgot about the infrastructure market.",
  "title": "Two More Major Linux Vulnerabilities Discovered in the Same Class as Copy Fail"
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