On 07/09/2018 03:16 AM, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 02:50:56AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
>> On 07/09/2018 01:53 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
>>> On 07/09/2018 01:06 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>>> Hash: SHA256
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>>>> On 09/07/18 17:51, KatolaZ wrote:
>>>>> Literally anybody can get the sources of the Linux kernel and read
>>>>> through it. So I guess your fears are somehow unjustified...
>>
>>
>> Has the thought occurred to you that maybe the people that where finding
>> those problems are now working for the bad guys? I remember way back in my
>> days with windows all the good people finding problems with windows where
>> soon bought up by microsoft, now they are buying up linux, do you really
>> want to give up? Now I read even BSD is going to adopt systemd, it's
>> looking like the without-systemd project is the only hope to save linux and
>> keep it from becoming another microsoft project, I'm not willing to stop, I
>> will still hold a candle for freedom.
>
>
> You can't buy everybody. Not even Intel, which is the largest actor in
> IT, could silence the group which discovered Spectre and Meltdown,
> despite the trick costed them billion dollars and despite they were
> notified of the vulnerabilities several months before they were
> disclosed to the wide public.
>
> Conspiracy theories do not work for a simple reason: you just can't
> buy everybody, and even if you think you can, people have always liked
> to talk about their smart discoveries.
>
> Almost everybody out there seems to be looking for their 5 minutes of
> glory. Look for instance at all the clamour around the "fatal PGP
> vulnerability", which was not a PGP vulnerability at all, rather the
> manifestation of the sheer incompetence of almost all the developers
> of MUAs in the last 20 years. The result of that "discovery" was a
> totally wrong and misleading message: "Oh! Don't encrypt your emails
> any more because it's DANGEROUS!!!". Which is just plain nonsense, and
> tells a lot about how the media can disproportionately inflate even
> the most silly news about the most silly bug.
>
> You can fear only what you don't understand, and you can successfully
> fight only what you understand fully. There are lots of people out
> there who understand a lot more about the Linux kernel than many of us
> here. I simply decided to trust them, collectively, because I know
> that nobody can buy all of them.


Well some of those kernel experts are saying you need to check your
kernel. Also how you respond to this thread speaks volumes.
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Jimmy Johnson

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