>Researchers in NSA's National Information Assurance Research Laboratory (NIARL) designed and implemented flexible mandatory access controls in the major subsystems of the Linux kernel and implemented the new operating system components provided by the Flask architecture, namely the security server and the access vector cache. The NSA researchers reworked the LSM-based SELinux for inclusion in Linux 2.6. NSA has also led the development of similar controls for the X Window System (XACE/XSELinux) and for Xen (XSM/Flask).
>QUITE a few sites (see [1-3] below) seem to be talking about Red Hat’s special (but no longer secret) relationship with the NSA, which is not at all news. The NSA uses a lot of RHEL (and also Fedora) on some malicious spying equipment, based on various NSA leaks. We already wrote a great deal about this back in 2013
Telemetry is great. I always keep telemetry and crash reporting enabled, it's a zero effort of way of helping to improve the quality and stability of the software I use and love everyday. Any Forums is a bunch of fucking leeches
Jordan Myers
Do you guys not read the things you cite? It literally says NSA uses their own tweaked Linux on their spy shit. It doesn't say they've published spy code to the kernel.
and none of this matters and never did matter. NSA makes utilites for themselves and if they're useful, we get them. They've been doing it for decades. All of it is open source and can be forked or messed with in any way before implementation.
Yet another thread where Any Forums claims the sky is falling when the sky is still a flawless glassy containment dome over our reality with zero cracks, as it should be.
Jacob Lee
Once the code gets to +10,000 lines in total nobody is going to audit it
Chase Hall
>Appraisal-focused (adaptive cognitive) strategies occur when the person modifies the way they think, for example: employing denial, or distancing oneself from the problem. Individuals who use appraisal coping strategies purposely alter their perspective on their situation in order to have a more positive outlook on their situation.[10] An example of appraisal coping strategies could be an individual purchasing tickets to a football game, knowing their medical condition would likely cause them to not be able to attend.[10] People may alter the way they think about a problem by altering their goals and values, such as by seeing the humor in a situation: "some have suggested that humor may play a greater role as a stress moderator among women than men".[11]
Sure but whoever made that website isn't making that distinction, so according to him yes, opt-in telemetry is Literally 1984 (TM) too.
Logan Thomas
i skimmed through the code for a few a few seconds once and didn't see anything weird so it's probably fine
Zachary Howard
everyone schizoposting about systemd is unironically 13 years old or younger, they can't read a single line of code to save their life
Blake Morris
Privacy is good, but flanderizing GNU/Linux as "the privacy OS" is retarded and falsely implies that there are no non-ideological reasons to ever use it, or that hyper-proprietary garbage like Windows would be perfectly harmless if it lacked telemetry.
FOSS projects have no incentive to make telemetry mandatory because if they did, distros would just start packaging it with the telemetry patched out upstream.
Aaron Cook
>distros would just start packaging it with the telemetry patched out upstream No they wouldn't the distros would just start adding their own telemetry
