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They were already at risk.

• mark-r 9y ago
  Making an exploit widely known increases the risk dramatically.
  • testvox 9y ago
    No... I immediately set a root password, if this had not been posted I would be far more at risk.
    • mark-r 9y ago
      Maybe you personally are at less risk, but the population as a whole is at greater risk.
      • patcheudor 9y ago
        I'm now seeing cases of non technical people trying this because they heard about it and it's easy. To them, it just unlocks some system preferences thing. Guess what those people are not doing after they try it? 'passwd root' to change the password because in many cases they don't even know what the terminal is. In this particular case, the ease of validation additionally works against users.