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Gizmodo posts the headline on their front page, "You Might Want to Uninstall VLC. Immediately" Following the debunking of the story, what does Gizmodo do? Leav
by p49k 7y ago
Gizmodo posts the headline on their front page, "You Might Want to Uninstall VLC. Immediately"
Following the debunking of the story, what does Gizmodo do? Leave it on the front page and change the headline to "You Might Want to Uninstall VLC. Immediately [Updated]"
- GunniH 7y agoThey actually did. >You Might Want to Uninstall VLC. Immediately. [Updated: Maybe Not] Is the current title...
- dvtrn 7y agoWe have reached out to both companies for more info on what happened regarding the initial CVE Should have done that from the very beginning, as should have MITRE before publishing a CVE ID. Failures all around on this one. Sorry you’re having such a shit morning, jbk, because of other people’s laziness.
- NikolaeVarius 7y agoIts amazing how a title can have two entirely contradictory, non committal claims telling you to do a thing, and yet tell me absolutely nothing useful.
- madez 7y agoWill you still read Gizmodo or consider it a trustable source?
- NikolaeVarius 7y agoI read gizmodo every once in a while for mild entertainment. I have never considered it, or anything related to Kinja, to be trustworthy in any shape or form.
- chachachoney 7y agoThe Gell-Man amnesia effect is quite strong.
- zamalek 7y ago"Maybe not." These journalists...
- sct202 7y agoLifehacker (which is part of the same blog network) posted "Wait Before Uninstalling VLC from Your Computer." They're trying to get all the clicks from every angle.