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Red Hat (IBM) Hyped Up a Fair Pair of Flaws That Isn't Critical, Isn't Actively Exploited, and Even Red Hat's Distro Isn't Patching Yet

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techrights; By Royt Schestowitz
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Fuelling Microsoft-affiliated and sometimes Microsoft-funded “news” (noise) sites, Red Hat — and to a lesser extent Fedora — exaggerated the severity of bugs a week before their details’ release (long and purposeless suspense); it’s a case of a boy who cries “wolf!” to get “likes” in Twitter and media coverage that relies on nothing but lousy (inaccurate) "tweets", where fact-checking is impeded by NDAs/embargo

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