On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:09:13 -0500, Эльбрус wrote in message <1532624953.7475.10.ca...@asynchronousexchange.com>:
> On Thu, 2018-07-26 at 18:10 +0200, info at smallinnovations dot nl > wrote: > > > > I am not into conspiracy theories and keep it simple: > > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/why.html and then ask why the hell > > does someone wants a init system to do all this stuff? Easy answer: > > latest row in table on that page "Easily writable, extensible and > > parseable service files, suitable for manipulation with enterprise > > management tools" which is not by coincidence the main business of > > Red Hat. > > > > Grtz. > > > > Nick > > I agree with this latest point. While most probably they placed a > backdoor in systemd, they may have plenty of them in the hardware and > linux kernel. Access in the military goes by the security clearance of > the individuals, thus any backdoor in systemd may just add another > layer to the stack. ..any chance that systemd backdoors can be used to control, or at least learn more about these hardware backdoors? > The largest profit of systemd arises from withdrawing the control of > the users from their own machines, the same way android and windows > did so successfully. More sheep, more profits for everybody, more > easy to rule over them. For 30 years they have fought against linux > systems because users do whatever they want with their machines. ..30 years? I could believe 25 or so years, of seriously meant backdoor engineering by these 3 letter .gov et al agencies on us, and that's assuming they were on the ball on Linus' first post. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
