Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Article on GRSecurity, RMS, etc.

[concernedfossdev]

It's all for naught on x86 however: both the Intel chipset and the AMD are 
backdoored
(as we've known for years). ARM is also backdoored.

What does that leave? Elbrus from Russia (for 7k a pop) and Leemote from China?

It would be nice if an honest country would disregard the patents and just make 
a
x86 clone with good performance. We've been stuck below 4Ghz for a decade now, 
it's
not cutting edge research.


(Some more recent articles on the Intel hardware root kit (notice: AMD has the 
same thing since 2013 on all chips, just named differently)
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/06/20/0226242
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/06/15/1835227/intel-x86s-hide-another-cpu-that-can-take-over-your-machine----you-cant-audit-it


Could you ask PaX/Grsecurity what they think of these things?

June 27 2016 8:54 AM, "Shawn" <citypw@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not an expert of GPL compliance. I personally don't see any GPL
> violation in PaX/Grsecurity. Because of some embedded vendors pissed
> off PaX/Grsecurity's authors last year and then they decided stable
> patch was going to customer-only, which means you could get the source
> code once you paid. It's very fair to myself. Because they need to
> spend time and hire people to do the regression testing to make their
> customer's production system as stable as possible. Fortunately, they
> are still release test patch for public. As a user and a security
> consultant, test patch is good enough to deal with the most situation
> I've met.
> 
> I 'd say we are lucky to have brilliant FLOSS hackers like Spender and
> PaX team in this era. Because of them, we have a very effective
> solution for linux kernel security, which compares to other core
> infrastructures such as firmware or compiler. Even CHIPSEC and
> reproducible builds are just starting point somehow. It'd be a long
> way to protect your digital freedom away from BIGBROs just like
> PaX/Grsecurity in kernel field;-)
> 
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 12:58 PM, <concernedfossdev@teknik.io> wrote:
> 
>> Soylent news published an article/discussion on GRSecurity, RMS, etc
>> If you're interested it's here:
>> https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/06/02/214243
>> 
>>> RMS Responds - GRsecurity is Preventing Others From Redistributing Source 
>>> Code [UPDATED]
> 
> --
> GNU powered it...
> GPL protect it...
> God blessing it...
> 
> regards
> Shawn