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This is not a minor bug, this is a bug that caused data to be misrepresented. If you want to compare it to OS bugs, then you need to look at silent data corruption: how many data corruption bugs have gone undetected in operating systems for 15 years?


The notorious (and still disputed) HFS+ bit-rot issues?


You mean a server OS leaking kernel memory to any external connection doing something special with TLS without leaving any audit trail that this happened is a minor bug?

We could talk about the OS driver shit show too!




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