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Off topic: As someone who doesn't even like Star Trek I feel attacked.

While we are off topic, that opening by apenwarr (linked in the article) was epic:

> Recently a security hole in a certain open source Java library resulted in a worldwide emergency kerfuffle as, say, 40% of the possibly hundreds of millions of worldwide deployments of this library needed to be updated in a hurry. (The other 60% also needed to be updated in a hurry, but won't be until they facilitate some ransomware, which is pretty normal for these situations.)



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