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The bigger you are, the more servers you have to manage, the more services might provide a way in, the more users have access and might have their credentials stolen... it's actually much easier to be secure when you're small.



The real money-quote from the original article was:

We are currently working with the 448 users of kernel.org to change their credentials and change their SSH keys.

With 448 users, something like this was inevitable...


I wouldn't call a root exploit inevitable just from user count.




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