Comments on: This Week in Security: The Geopolitical Kernel, Roundcube, and The Archive

By: Jace

Jace — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:22:45 +0000

Boeing is not a government agency.

The prison where Epstein was killed is though…

By: x0rpunk

x0rpunk — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:18:42 +0000

I just get amused by people who think public disclosure about the state of quantum computing is going to be current whether from the private sector or “public” sector..

NSA, DGSE, SVR, and MSS will probably be implementing attacks with it at least a decade before it’s even remotely disclosed.. FIPS 203/204/205 also won’t be much use if you’re still using EdDSA

By: Jonathan Bennett

Jonathan Bennett — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 15:11:49 +0000

In reply to ASAF. I actually see this as a problem a lot of organizations have. After a controversial decision, people come out of the woodwork to criticize. Rather than accept criticism, the org dismisses it as brigading, bots, trolls, etc. Those things do happen, and it's sometimes difficult to tell the real from the manufactured. To Torvalds' credit, he did call out the legitimate people that were concerned, and responded to the concern.

By: combinatorylogic

combinatorylogic — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:42:25 +0000

In reply to Gravis. Are you talking about those Boeing whistleblowers? US government is using mob methods indeed.

By: cmholm

cmholm — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 00:01:02 +0000

Re the Linux Maintainers list, I’m reading the results correctly, only certain names and email addresses needed to be removed, not code… although there’s the complication that US sanctions against Russia include economic goods (“contributions”) from those employed by. sanctioned companies (ie. Baikal Electronics). A nice summary has been posted on Stack Exchange: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/15127

By: ASAF

ASAF — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 23:07:44 +0000

In reply to Bob. Yeah clearly anyone who criticized Torvalds stupid comments on this issue is a Russian troll /s

By: Foldi-One

Foldi-One — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 11:02:38 +0000

In reply to John.

So much of any opensource project is the community – you can’t really have anonymous in a way that actually is a good defence against a nation state level of resources and still be open to expanding the community and building the trust.

So yeah I think this is probably the right move under the circumstances, nobody under the thumb of a dictator who is actively crushing the freedoms of his own people, the same freedom opensource rather requires should be let in – you can’t really trust ‘their’ contributions even if you do trust them as an individual having met at many conferences or something in the before times. Though as the USA looks like it might be on the way to having their own dictator…