Re: GRSec is vital to Linux security

2019-01-25 Thread linuxgpletc
eak" > policy on RHEL sources too... VMware even goes so far as to blatantly > claim not to use Linux. How about Google's internal Linux? > > GPL is dead (has been for 20y), build the strongest defenses you can > with whatever code you can get and prove, because your adversaries &g

Re: GRSec is vital to Linux security

2019-01-24 Thread Boris Lukashev
> > policy on RHEL sources too... VMware even goes so far as to blatantly > > claim not to use Linux. How about Google's internal Linux? > > > > GPL is dead (has been for 20y), build the strongest defenses you can > > with whatever code you can get and prove, because

Re: GRSec is vital to Linux security

2019-01-24 Thread linuxgpletc
ir tooling adheres to. Boris Lukashev Systems Architect Semper Victus Original Message From: linuxgpl...@redchan.it Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 05:35 PM To: br...@perens.com Subject: Re: GRSec is vital to Linux security CC: mog...@columbia.edu,bk...@sfconservancy.org,complia...@sfconservancy.org,blukas...@sempervictus.com,tcall...@redhat.com,torva...@osdl.org

Re: GRSec is vital to Linux security -- SFConservancy = legal malpractice. Use own lawyer.

2019-01-24 Thread linuxgpletc
One note: If you are going to defend your copyrights and the idea of the GPL, do not rely on the "free software legal groups". The "free software legal groups" exist only to commit legal malpractice. The guy who ran the SFConservancy (Bradly Kuhn IIRC) isn't even a lawyer. He advises "clients

Re: GRSec is vital to Linux security

2019-01-24 Thread linuxgpletc
On 2019-01-24 15:31, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: Do you have some actual proposals / patches ? Sue Open Source Security / Bradly Spengler for copyright infringement. Seek his profits as damages. I doubt you'll be able to get specific performance since the GPL is not a contact in t

Fwd: Re: GRSec is vital to Linux security

2019-01-24 Thread linuxgpletc
Original Message Subject: Re: GRSec is vital to Linux security Date: 2019-01-24 16:25 From: Boris Lukashev To: linuxgpl...@redchan.it You've never heard of VMware, I take it? Its a proprietary half Linux which beats GPL suits with strong arm tactics and technical

Re: GRSec is vital to Linux security

2019-01-24 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 04:31:10PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > On 23.01.19 21:46, Ivan Ivanov wrote: > > > Linux really needs to stop adding new features and > > refactor itself to a smaller and more secure codebase before going > > forward. Maybe 1 year break would be nice.

Re: GRSec is vital to Linux security

2019-01-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 23.01.19 21:46, Ivan Ivanov wrote: > Linux really needs to stop adding new features and > refactor itself to a smaller and more secure codebase before going > forward. Maybe 1 year break would be nice. Do you have some actual proposals / patches ? --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult

Re: GRSec is vital to Linux security

2019-01-23 Thread linuxgpletc
On 2019-01-23 20:46, Ivan Ivanov wrote: Interesting point of view. Well, to be honest it seems to me that Linux kernel sacrifices the security for the sake of progress, so it is quite bloated at the moment and I am not sure that even GRSecurity could fix it. Linux really needs to stop adding new

Re: GRSec is vital to Linux security

2019-01-23 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Interesting point of view. Well, to be honest it seems to me that Linux kernel sacrifices the security for the sake of progress, so it is quite bloated at the moment and I am not sure that even GRSecurity could fix it. Linux really needs to stop adding new features and refactor itself to a smaller

GRSec is vital to Linux security

2019-01-23 Thread linuxgpletc
There are two iron laws when it comes to the linux-kernel and it's facing towards the larger world. 1) The grsecurity-pax patch is absolutely vital if one wishes to not be hacked by chinese(TM). (And has been vital for the last 15+ years.) 2) GRSecurity is _blatantly_ violating the GPL by adding