[re9]

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34580360
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34600863
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34605980

queue the master dang and his ban-hammer to suppress that thread also.

[tarotuser]

That's the problem: for those of us who run Ubuntu and related (Xubuntu here), we found out about this by our regular updating, and having apt give that rude message.

It's basically a "fuck you pay me" message, with the subtext of "it'd be a shame if someone was to hack that vulnerable program I just gave you"