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I'll go with number 3. She didn't just say "don't run", she said "uninstall". That doesn't sound like "misleading" or "uses too much resources". It sounds very CVE-ish.
"uninstall" points at a very specific type of exploit.
It might just be that "uninstall" is the simplest one-word advice you can give that will definitely solve the problem.
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It might be covered under an NDA with some company that she's contracting with if she/they discovered the vulnerability in the course of their work.
It could also be any number of other things too, like it's severe enough that the author feels its responsible to wait for mitigation efforts before disclosing anything about the issue that could lead to it being exploited.
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This. Not only that, I don't know of a single person (IRL or online) who used atop, like, ever. In fact, this is the first time I'm even hearing of atop. IIRC, most folks went from top -> htop -> glances -> various btop variants (bashtop, bpytop, btop++ etc)
Btop variants, glances, why should I move from htop?
I'm genuinely stunned to figure out there's a whole set of lore of *tops.
I'm not sure I'm being rational from a textbook security perspective, but, it'd take a whole lot of tangible reward to get me off the binaries supplied with the system.
This screams NDA/disclosure but things are so mega super fucked that they feel obligated to pre warn as early as possible. I wonder how long/old the problem is in atop?
That last line for sure reads as '(author) can't tell you now, but can (plans to) tell you later'; NDA and/or CVE as most likely reasons.
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It could also be any number of other things too, like it's severe enough that the author feels its responsible to wait for mitigation efforts before disclosing anything about the issue that could lead to it being exploited.
The existence and phrasing of this post implies that the author doesn't trust the atop developers to fix anything in a timely manner if at all.
Is there even a tool to search what is pre-installed in each major distribution(s)?
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This. Not only that, I don't know of a single person (IRL or online) who used atop, like, ever. In fact, this is the first time I'm even hearing of atop. IIRC, most folks went from top -> htop -> glances -> various btop variants (bashtop, bpytop, btop++ etc)
Btop variants, glances, why should I move from htop?
Screenshots summarize this better than I can [0].
- [0] https://github.com/aristocratos/btop?tab=readme-ov-file#scre...
I’m actually surprised I didn’t have it installed, what with all the packages I check out just through sheer curiosity. Thanks Rachel! I’ll avoid it in the future.
Alarmingly, I had it installed on my home server, for some odd reason. I don't remember ever using it.