Because

A: electronic voting is an awful idea in so many ways

B: direct democracy is an awful idea in so many ways

C: voting is supposed to be secret which the petition signaures aren’t

R is pushing more support for Israel so D is the lesser evil. There’s a reason Netanyahu wanted Trump. If you think it couldn’t get worse than D level support, stay tuned

the in depth technical details

TL;DR; sigalarm handler calls syslog which isn’t safe to call from a signal handler context.

Their example exploit needed about 10k attempts to get a remote shell so it’s not fast or quiet, but a neat find regardless