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lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

If all kernel bugs are security bugs, how do you keep your Linux safe?

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If all kernel bugs are security bugs, how do you keep your Linux safe?

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lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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Since February, there've been 800 newly assigned CVEs. Your job? Update your main Linux distro more often.
  • Galli [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    “if” gcc had a Ken Thompson hack how do you secure checks notes anything

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      I’m genuinely worried sometimes that a Ken hack has been introduced. I don’t know by who, but possibly some government agency. Then again, we also have a Minix system built into the CPU doing god knows what and we just accept that.

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        We do?

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          https://itsfoss.com/fact-intel-minix-case/

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            Ooh that’s not creepy at all. Also, damn you BSD license.

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