Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
More than three months after being informed about remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in 25 router models, Linksys is[sic] yet to issue patches to remedy them.
Researchers at IOActive Labs wrote that they had informed Linksys of 10 flaws on 17 January, six of which could be remotely exploited by unauthenticated people.
But as of last week, all that Linksys had done was to notify users through a public post and suggest workarounds until patched firmware was ready.
Given Linksys' inactivity, the IOActive Labs researchers said they were holding off on providing the full technical details of the flaws until patched firmware was ready for download.
Shit, even we can manage a fix in six months...
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday April 26 2017, @02:49PM
Probably, even though that editor would be wrong, along with anyone who speaks British English. "LinkSys" is not a "group of people" at all; it's a legal corporate entity. While corporations usually have "groups of people" as employees, and sometimes even as owners, this isn't always the case. There are plenty of corporations owned by individuals, and have no employees at all. (And having employees is really irrelevant anyway, because they don't own the corporation any more than contractors that the corporation makes deals with to get work done; they're just hired hands.) A corporation is a singular entity, and the pronouns for it should reflect that.
Similarly, a human being is a singular entity, and all English speakers use singular pronouns in referring to them, when in fact *all* human beings are actually composed of billions of cells. But being composed of many different cells, many of which are radically different species even (symbiotic bacteria), doesn't change the fact that we look at humans as individuals and use singular pronouns when referring to a single human.