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Autore: Arnt Karlsen
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Oggetto: Re: [DNG] ..heads-up: systemd 253+ promises to block forensic imaging and booting of new hardware
On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:52:44 -0600, john wrote in message
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> On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 at 12:43, Arnt Karlsen <arnt@???> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > ..heads-up: systemd 253+ promises to block forensic imaging by
> > automatically reformatting swap space, and to block booting of
> > new hardware:
> > https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/17/systemd_253/
>
> can you imagine, on a hard drive, the amount of wear and tear brought
> on by repeated reformatting? What in the fresh hell are the
> Poettering Followers thinking?


..maybe defeat non-systemd pm-suspend-hybrid "boot-up" speeds? ;o)
Those require swap space remaining in working order...
Etc.

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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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