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 > > > > > > > > > > > > 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. My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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