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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Many distros (at least Ubuntu) auto-installs security updates, and here a mislabeled "security update" was auto-installed. This is not the fault of the sysadmins.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

here a mislabeled "security update" was auto-installed.

To be fair, you would have to read all the way to the first paragraph to get this information from the article. Hard to blame people for not knowing this critical bit of information when it was buried so deep