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Comment by twic | Hacker News Reader

With the CVE date being a day after this blog post, and ~17 years after the actual vulnerability.

Filing a CVE for this seems like a bit of a cheap gag (and i enjoy cheap gags). Is there any real practical value in filing a CVE with this little detail, this long after the fact?

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Maybe manufacturers will check to see if they are still vulnerable or enterprises using old technology. If it were just a blog post, nobody would probably know about it.

  Historical records should never be underestimated just by assuming they don't look too "practical" nowadays.

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