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Thanks to everyone involved in the Gentoo Hardened project, especially |
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Spender and Pax Guy, for the effort and guidance throughout the years. The |
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anecdotes shared in this thread echo my own experiences to a degree, and |
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I've learned a lot about computer security by trying to get the grsec RBAC |
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system fully functional. |
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It's saddening to read the news today, and also to read that article in The |
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Guardian; makes me really wish I'd been much more involved with this stuff. |
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I donated a small amount, long ago, and always felt a sense of pride seeing |
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my name on the grsec website. |
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Here's to (not) getting rewted! |
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On Apr 29, 2017 4:34 PM, Tóth Attila <atoth@××××××××××.hu> wrote: |
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> 2017.Április 29.(Szo) 20:43 időpontban Daniel Cegiełka ezt írta: |
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> >> That's the part I don't get either. Since the only possible motivation |
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> >> I can think of for this move is to generate more income, they could've |
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> >> at least tried asking the community for donations first. |
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> > It's more complex: |
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> > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/27/grsecurity/ |
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> > I don't judge them. I'm interested in the future of projects that were |
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> > heavily dependent on PaX (Gentoo Hardened, Alpine Linux). |
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> I also have concernes about the future of Gentoo Hardened userspace. |
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> Security initiatives drew my attention 15+ years ago, when Adamantix was |
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> alive. After discontinuation of the project I've discovered Gentoo |
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> Hardened as something providing a remedy for security-aware refugees. Over |
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> the years I get used to the infrastructure of Daniel Robbins' Gentoo and |
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> experienced the benefits of the rolling release nature of the distro and |
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> all those simple compile time tools provides to the power users. |
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> When you go hardened, you cant stop it. |
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> I wish Hardened Gentoo survives and continue to exist for long. |
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> >> Now, I suppose someone is going to answer "If you'd be willing do |
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> >> regularily donate to them, you might as well get a subscription", but I |
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> >> fear this might have some serious drawbacks. In the past years, |
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> >> the Gentoo Hardened devs have invested quite some work to make sure |
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> >> most applications in the tree work on grsec/PaX-enabled kernels without |
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> >> too much fallout. But now, there's suddently a lot less motivation to |
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> >> keep up this work. |
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> Personal subscription was my first idea. I've made several small donations |
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> for the past decade. However a small fee equivalent to an antivirus |
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> software subsription or an Android app has an effect if there are enough |
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> people in the community. My guess is a project like grsecurity won't |
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> really depend on some individual users. Individuals of the community are |
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> suffering collateral damage currently. |
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> > Ned Lud (or Solar, but != Designer) has put a lot of work into the |
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> > launch of Gentoo Hardened and, of course, the popularization of PaX. |
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> > Old times.. :) |
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> Yes, Ned Ludd. |
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> > This means that there will be conflicts in the future. I don't claim |
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> > that maintaining PaX support will be easy, but it's possible to do so. |
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> I believe the community and grsecurity will find a solution soon. Hardened |
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> Gentoo provided a basis for test patches. |
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> I understand the developers of grsecurity getting fed up by legal issues |
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> and having a lack of time dealing with problems they don't want to spend |
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> their resources on. I hope there will be a good solution for every |
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> benevolent parties involved. |
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> Dwokfur |
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