mricon

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by mricon 4y ago
The admins probably got grumpy because a bajilion HN bots querying for link previews DDOS'ed the whole bugzilla.
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Cross-fork object sharing in Git (is not a bug)(people.kernel.org)
4 points by mricon 5y ago|0 comments
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by mricon 8y ago
Version 12.0 will be out shortly after, around 1970.
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by mricon 8y ago
Yes, builtin CDN offload is actively under discussion as part of v2 protocol changes, but there is nothing currently available in released versions. The "repo" command that comes with Android dev tools uses the clone.bundle approa
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Protecting code integrity with PGP(github.com)
1 points by mricon 9y ago|0 comments
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by mricon 9y ago
That's the TL;DR of the article. ;)
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by mricon 10y ago
We offer rsync for that purpose.
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by mricon 10y ago
Thank you very much for the offer. I'm not sure I can easily take you up on that, as SF and London are about equally far from Montreal. I'll try to see if perhaps I can do an on-air hangout.
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by mricon 10y ago
> Just turn it into a PDF with slides for goodness sakes. Hey, I'm not the ones who linked to slides.com. :) The PDF version is linked off the main conference page: http://kernsec.org/files/lss2015/giant-ba
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by mricon 10y ago
It's not really a recommendation. It's presented as one of the free software projects attempting to tackle workstation security. Another one is SubgraphOS.
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by mricon 10y ago
I'm sorry you all have to read just the slide deck. It's an hour-long presentation and a lot of content is simply not in the deck. :( Unfortunately, every time I've presented it, the talk was not recorded -- hopefully I'
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by mricon 10y ago
I'm sure we are all beautiful people, which is why I omitted that part. :)
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by mricon 10y ago
Of course, if the company leadership doesn't care, then you will have a hard time convincing them why the upfront effort of "doing it right" is worth it. When dealing with this situation, I found it useful to compare IT secur
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by mricon 10y ago
The slides interface is supposed to be for the presenter, really, not for the general public. The benefit to the presenter is if someone from the audience says "I'd like you to go back to the slide where you talked about X" -
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by mricon 11y ago
> Any security checklist should start with a description both how the machine is to be used and the expected threats models. It states right at the top that the target audience is Linux sysadmins and their workstations. > It has some
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by mricon 11y ago
Not everyone has an evil agenda. And, if you read the guide, it specifically mentions the downsides of SecureBoot and offers alternatives (AntiEvilMaid).
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by mricon 11y ago
You actually tend to never use the root password on a modern workstation -- just sudo. The situations where you have to use a root password are usually if something has gone wrong and you have to log in via tty.
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by mricon 11y ago
It's just mentioned in passing, alongside other recommendations.
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by mricon 11y ago
Correction: The Linux Foundation is a 501(c)(6) non-profit consortium.
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by mricon 11y ago
https://kernel.org/hurr-durr-ima-sheep.html
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by mricon 11y ago
It redirects to a site with a valid certificate belonging to "The Linux Foundation." To a domain with a whois record belonging to The Linux Foundation. With DNS servers belonging to the Linux Foundation. Come on.
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by mricon 12y ago
Clearly something only the pirates would do.
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How Linux Foundation Runs Its Virtual Office(informationweek.com)
5 points by mricon 13y ago|0 comments