The majority of their revenue is from the US military. That has a certain type of impact.

I hope there will be a backlash and some Linux distros will remember that reliability was one of the Linux promises. Currently it does not look good, with Gentoo the only somewhat major distro that has not decided to join the clusterfuck. (Slackware is another.) On the other hand, current Debian stable does not have it either, and that will be around for a few years, so if people wise up to how stupid and non-UNIX systemd is soon enough, they _could_ go back. I may also be dreaming here, but my impression is that the negative voices with regard to systemd are increasing. Basically everybody with a clue that takes one look at this monster immediately does not like it.

There are people not on SysV init? That shows even it is already more complicated than needed. Excellent!

I am not sure it is a bigger issue, since many of these sites will not be publicly reachable. But it definitely is an issue foe example for large corporations that use SSL in their Intranet with self-signed certificates. They now have to wonder whether some of their staff has attacked their servers this way.

That is BS. Nobody sane installs a root certificate on productive network-connected hardware, unless they are terminally stupid. Oh, wait...

Seriously, how out-of-touch can you get? That the X.509 global certificate system has been fundamentally compromised has been well-known for quire a few years to everybody that follows the news at least in a cursory fashion.

You make zero sense. Do you think they would take Rice on if she did not fit perfectly? They just have lost all shame about what they have been doing semi-secretly (but clearly for all that cared to find out) so far and are making it explicit.

Well, maybe you are a scum paid troll, then you of course have to say things like you did.

Some things are finished and work well. For them, the default is "major change = bad" unless extraordinary evidence to the contrary is presented. For example, look at systemd. For init-systems, "major change = bad" is clearly the default. Yet the flimsy, irrelevant "evidence" that change is needed is "it boots faster". This is really brain-dead.

That is why I use a window manager as GUI (fvwm2 in my case), not something that thinks it is an essential part of the OS and has any business doing a lot of things that have no place in a GUI. Same, incidentally, with systemd: Its job (should it ever be able to do it properly) is to start services that configure themselves in whatever way they see fit. Instead it takes over everything it can get its hands on and tries to be some kind of "meta-kernel". Not good, not UNIX, not KISS, not desirable, not on my machines...

As Gnome sucks badly anyways, this is not an issue. The only problem that could arise is if an evil NSA-friendly corporation like Red Hat takes over development.

Why? Simple: If they let this type of vulnerability exits unpatched, they are collaborating with criminals, foreign (and often hostile) intelligence services and terrorists by standing idle buy. That puts them straight in the "bad guys" class and, by any sane account, represents high treason. It is a bit like leaving the border open in order to see who brings anthrax, nuclear material or bombs over it.

In addition, they are increasing the level of uncertainty and trust for everybody, thereby aiding terrorists of all sorts that have exactly this same goal, namely destabilizing society.

It really does not get more evil than that, except actively creating vulnerabilities that everybody can find and exploit. Oh, wait, they may be doing that as well...

Well, clearly you are a psychopath. And likely a severe danger to everybody around you. Or maybe you are just evil and thrive on death?

Somebody is a psychopath here.

The common flu is killing several orders of magnitude more each year. The problem with Ebola is that once it reaches a certain level, society collapses. Then then you need to contain what is left by force, just to prevent panic. And _that_ is what will kill a lot more people that the disease itself ever could.