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spc476 on Dec 10, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Log4j RCE Found

syslog() has been around for a lot longer than 20 years, and that's a function that logs to a separate process. What's so bad about syslog that people need to invent new logging systems?

funcDropShadow on Dec 10, 2021 [–]

Because it is not portable and therefore not the blessed Java entreprise way of doing things. /rantoff

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