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- 1: Samsung laptop bug is not Linux specific
- 2: Playing with Thunderbolt under Linux on Apple hardware
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- 4: More in the series of bizarre UEFI bugs
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- 6: Update on leaked UEFI signing keys - probably no significant risk
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Seriously?
Date: 2012-07-14 07:46 am (UTC)If this offends you, please, please, just do us a favour and get over it.
The real, technical problem here is that the magic number was not drawn at random. The pool of constants that "look like" English words/phrases is much much smaller than the pool of all 32-bit constants. So you're much more likely to get a collision with somebody else. Entropy's a bitch...