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by glass- 11y ago
That paragraph has no relevancy to the GPLv2 , it is pointing out how they fixed the problem in version 3. The Linux kernel is still licensed under GPLv2. The differences between v2 and v3 is the entire context of this thread, so I believe
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by glass- 11y ago
Are we reading the same thing? It says: > The best way to make sure you are in compliance when distributing GPLv2 object code on BitTorrent would be to include all the corresponding source in the same torrent Not a link to the source, th
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by glass- 11y ago
My favourite part of the GPLv2 is the torrent technicality[0]. I wonder if all those people seeding Linux distributions realise they're violating the license. [0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#BitTorren
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by glass- 11y ago
Also see, Ted Unangst's post about ZFS where he lists some criticisms[0] which somewhat expands on Brauer's criticism, and he talks about when he was interviewed on BSD Now[1]. Keep in mind that their criticisms are mostly about i
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by glass- 11y ago
Go to justgetflux.com and CTRL+F for the word "patent".
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by glass- 11y ago
Which parts of "being Firefox" did the Firefox versions in Debian stable, where the only changes were backported security patches, fail?
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by glass- 11y ago
It's entirely inconsistent with Mozilla's past actions. You can compile Firefox source code of which 100% of it came from released Firefox versions in Mozilla's HG tree and they won't let you call that "Firefox&quot
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by glass- 11y ago
What Mozilla won't let you call "Firefox": a version of Firefox where the only changes are security patches backported from a future version of Firefox (see: the Debian and IceWeasel debacle). What Mozilla will call "Fir
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by glass- 11y ago
The examples are just examples, the uses in the tree are different. For example, ksh doesn't exit if pledge fails, it just prints an error about why it failed and keeps running (imagine how fun it would be the shell did just keep termi
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by glass- 11y ago
> I don't see how pledge is different from Capsicum which he criticises on this basis, one it is compiled in you cant disable it. This is addressed in the slides. Capsicum is 5 years old and used in 12 programs because it is diffic
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by glass- 11y ago
> he dismisses SE Linux on that basis. I don't see why the same doesn't apply to pledge. If you use a Linux distro that enables SE Linux, the second it gets in the way you can turn it off. If you install OpenBSD-current right n
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by glass- 11y ago
> Theo is getting good results on tightening up the classic UNIX command line tools. Has he tried EMACS yet? You may want to take a closer look at the slides about what has been pledged so far. httpd, smtpd, ntpd, relayd, slowcgi, xterm.
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by glass- 11y ago
Page 19 is interesting. It explains that this is possible, without everything that does logging needing access to sockets, because on OpenBSD syslog(3) doesn't use sockets and doesn't need a file descriptor.
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by glass- 11y ago
There is a lot more than just the useragent when it comes to Tor Browser versus any other browser. Tor Browser has many changes to try and make every instance of Tor Browser look identical, everything from the HTTP headers to window size to
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by glass- 11y ago
I wonder if he realises that browsing over Tor with IceCat will be causing him to have quite a distinct browser fingerprint. He should just use Tor Browser.
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The CA's Role in Fighting Phishing and Malware(letsencrypt.org)
9 points by glass- 11y ago|3 comments
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by glass- 11y ago
> - Toggle layout.css.visited_links_enabled to False Firefox lies[0] to scripts that try to access the style-state of visited links. You probably don't need to set this. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/d
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by glass- 11y ago
That sounds like it was written by someone who doesn't completely understand Convergence, and also has an alternative agenda (they want their own solution adopted). > It is not very user friendly. Users are asked to manage a list of
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by glass- 11y ago
The CA system is unique is that one hole, breach or incompetent actor compromises the entire system. It's also unique is that when an authority has a hole, breach or is an incompetent actor, it's very difficult to remove them from
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by glass- 11y ago
I have no doubt that there would be incompetent or dishonest notaries. The difference being that in an alternative universe, where Convergence is used, a rogue notary doesn't destroy the trust of the entire system. When Symantec is a r
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by glass- 11y ago
Convergence was the perfect replacement, but it never gained any traction. Moxie's talk at BlackHat[0] introducing it is a good watch for those unfamiliar with the idea, and if you want to be wistfully frustrated at what could have bee
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by glass- 11y ago
It makes me uncomfortable that the CA system is set up in a way that makes this necessary. If an alternative, such as Convergence, had taken off we wouldn't be in this situation.
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by glass- 11y ago
I used your script to sign my cert and it works great. The best part is it doesn't need to bootstrap and try to install a bunch of dependencies that I don't want or need, unlike the official client. Thanks a lot.
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by glass- 11y ago
That whole discussion on the slide from 38:50 is hilarious and scary. "You can't turn off the debugging malloc but you can turn off sockets" "If the size of socklen_t changes while your program is running, OpenSSL will c
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by glass- 11y ago
LibreSSL is mostly a drop-in replacement for OpenSSL, while BoringSSL has removed things that some applications will depend on. OSes shouldn't/couldn't replace OpenSSL for BoringSSL (the article says as much) but could replac
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by glass- 11y ago
LibreSSL has had roughly half (22 to 43) as many vulnerabilities as OpenSSL since the fork and, before this, 0 sev:high, compared to OpenSSL's 5 sev:high. Would you really disregard all that because of a 1-byte buffer overflow and a me
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by glass- 11y ago
The problem in that thread was caused by building ports, which will fill up /usr. If you're going to build ports, I'd recommend changing the working dirs[0] to a different partition (I use /home). Because of how the auto
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by glass- 11y ago
This also stores the name of the site in plain-text.
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by glass- 11y ago
Making one big partition isn't the best idea because OpenBSD defaults the way it does for stability, data integrity and, a big surprise... security reasons[0]. That said, you shouldn't run out of space in the default partitions wh
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The OpenSMTPD audit, a debrief(undeadly.org)
2 points by glass- 11y ago|0 comments

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