By the way, I myself actually wrote code that walks through the kernel memory finding the location of the symbols. You're not gaining any extra security by making this change, but you are making Ubuntu less useful.
http://git.annexia.org/?p=virt-mem.git;a=blob;f=lib/virt_mem_kallsyms.ml;h=9e6eccb6629a2ea067ee46a7c690aea17e44c0d2;hb=HEAD#l39 http://git.annexia.org/?p=virt-mem.git;a=blob;f=lib/virt_mem_ksyms.ml;h=8a38caec5b9fa05904c3b9e8b5fcdb76871f27ae;hb=HEAD#l29 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/759725 Title: The kernel is no longer readable by non-root users -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs