You can hack anything - you just shouldn't get caught - #OpSec for data travellers

In this introductory talk we give an overview of the #risks of the #hacking #hobby: doors that are broken in, house searches and high legal fees obscure the enjoyment of free hacking.

Here it is worthwhile for the #hacking offspring to learn from the mistakes of others. We give classic examples of mistakes in #operational #security so that you don't have to make them.

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https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9716-du_kannst_alles_hacken_du_darfst_dich_nur_nicht_erwischen_lassen

#video #CCC #Linus
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Linus Torvalds, employee of Vaccine Passport company, yells at developer for having concerns about COVID vaccine

https://lbry.tv/@Lunduke:e/LinuxVax:f

It wouldn't be a day that ends with Y if something randomly controversial wasn't occuring on the Linux Kernel Mailing list.

On Thursday, June 10th, 2021... A discussio was occuring regarding the Linux Kernel Summit... and making it an in person, remote, or "hybrid" event. One Linux kernel dev, Enrico Weigelt, posted the following:

"I know a lot of people who will never take part in this generic human experiment that basically creates a new humanoid race (people who generate and exhaust the toxic spike proteine, whose gene sequence doesn't look quote natural). I'm one of them, as my whole family."

In response, Linus Torvalds jumped in with the following:

"Please keep your insane and technically incorrect anti-vax comments to yourself.

You don't know what you are talking about, you don't know what mRNA is, and you're spreading idiotic lies. Maybe you do so unwittingly, because of bad education. Maybe you do so because you've talked to "experts" or watched youtube videos by charlatans that don't know what they are talking about.

But dammit, regardless of where you have gotten your mis-information from, any Linux kernel discussion list isn't going to have your idiotic drivel pass uncontested from me."

cough

I get the feeling like Linus has an opinion!

Linus concluded:

"Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-vax lies.

And if you insist on believing in the crazy conspiracy theories, at least SHUT THE HELL UP about it on Linux kernel discussion lists."

Now, I'm not going to go into if LInus is right. Or if Enrico is right. Or if neither are completely right.

What I will comment on is this:

All comments relating to COVID vaccines were then blocked by mailing list moderators with the following message:

"moderator hat on I'm requesting that all vaccine talk is restricted solely to how it would impact international travel to/from ksummit."

This moderation was not applied to Linus's rant, however. That was allowed.

Worth mentioning:
Linus Torvald's employer, The Linux Foundation, is now in the business of making COVID vaccine passports
https://www.lfph.io/
Any statement, by him, critical of a COVID vaccine would hurt the Linux Foundation's new business endeavor.

That endeavor has been met with overwhelming praise from the Linux and Tech press. And zero criticism from the Tech Press... other than from yours truly. Likewise, you can expect Linus's statement quoted above to be met with overwhelming praise -- and, again, zero criticism -- from the Tech Press.

What all of that means I will leave as an exercise for the reader.


#Linus #Linux #Linuxfoundation #passports #covid #why #lunduke

Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
22 October 2024 - Russian Linux Kernel Maintainers

Quietly merged into this week's Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel was a patch that removes a number of kernel maintainers from being noted in the official MAINTAINERS file that recognizes all of the driver and subsystem maintainers.

Comments

#linus #torvalds #linux #censorship #Phoronix #LinuxKernel

Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks
21 October 2024 - Frustrated Torvalds

Over the past week Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been active on a Linux kernel mailing list thread around avoiding barrier_nospec() in copy_from_user() due to being "overkill and painfully slow." The conversation evolved into low-level discussions over CPU behavior and how to best handle, differing behavior/requirements with new Intel CPUs supporting Linear Address Masking (LAM), and the overall headaches these days around CPU security mitigations.

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#linus #linux #Phoronix #LinuxKernel

#Linus #Torvalds censored any Russians from contributing to gpl #Linux #kernel

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1500602-linus-torvalds-comments-on-the-russian-linux-maintainers-being-delisted/

"I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be *supporting* Russian
aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of..." Linus

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whNGNVnYHHSXUAsWds_MoZ-iEgRMQMxZZ0z-jY4uHT+Gg@mail.gmail.com/

By the way, his father was a communist and even lived in Moscow for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Torvalds#Education_and_experience

https://t.me/NoGoolag/34083

https://t.me/NoGoolag/5566

#npc #censorship

#linus #linux #kernel #censorship #bds

Another fine example how a CoC (CoC-board) is fucking up Linux and other OSS…

https://www.patreon.com/posts/116412665

“Another note that I was raising with the CoC is that a culture of dismissiveness, of finding ways to avoid the technical discussions we're supposed to be having, really is toxic, and moreso than mere flamewars.”

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/general-discussion/1507133-bcachefs-changes-rejected-reportedly-due-to-coc-kernel-future-uncertain

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Uncertain-Kernel-Issue

We really need to rethink the use of Foundations and CoCs and how they impact our freedom in a negative way…

#Linus #Linux #coc #flt