Security quotes of the week
How to panic a current @grsecurity kernel as any user: $ script /dev/null
</dev/zero (seriously, WTF)
— Hector
Martin shows how to get banned by grsecurity
Not all leaks are alike, nor are their makers. Gen. David Petraeus, for
instance, provided his illicit lover and favorable biographer information
so secret it defied classification, including the names of covert
operatives and the president’s private thoughts on matters of strategic
concern. Petraeus was not charged with a felony, as the Justice Department
had initially recommended, but was instead permitted to plead guilty to a
misdemeanor. Had an enlisted soldier of modest rank pulled out a stack of
highly classified notebooks and handed them to his girlfriend to secure so
much as a smile, he’d be looking at many decades in prison, not a pile of
character references from a Who’s Who of the Deep State.
— Edward
Snowden
So, the guy in the US government is upset that the public is more safe, and
the guy that people want to accuse of being a traitor is proud of helping
Americans to better protect themselves. Maybe we ought to reverse their
roles...
— Mike
Masnick on the NSA
estimate that the Snowden revelations sped up the adoption of encryption