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I’m not sure if this is a good thing. Sometimes you have to cut the cruft to focus the energy on what’s critical. If you have an old floppy that you want to re
by konschubert 7y ago
I’m not sure if this is a good thing. Sometimes you have to cut the cruft to focus the energy on what’s critical.
If you have an old floppy that you want to read you could also just install an old version of Linux.
- asveikau 7y agoA maintainer came forward and volunteered. That doesn't take focus away from other people who will be uninvolved. Although I could see a security argument. Wasn't there a qemu bug that involved exploiting a virtual floppy drive?
- gtirloni 7y agoYep, although I'm not sure if the virtual floppy disk is the same thing as is being discussed here. It even had a catchy name "VENOM", https://venom.crowdstrike.com/ https://venom.crowdstrike.com/
- asveikau 7y agoIt is not the same thing, no, but it highlights that having privileged code that is not frequently exercised or thought to be running can lead to bad times. Most users who were vulnerable to that one were likely not frequently thinking of the floppy device.
- ronsor 7y agoIt's a floppy driver. I don't think much is going to change, besides making sure it still works