CameronDev

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CameronDev,

And arch does the exact same thing as Ubuntu :/ not sure what they are trying to say with this one.

CameronDev,

Maybe Terry Davis was the real world Wonko the Sane?

CameronDev,

Goes back further than that, Turing was gay, so anything building off his works must also be transitively gay.

To add to the modern examples, Reiser murdered his wife, which really puts “devil cunts” into perspective :D

CameronDev,

The original post called it a mental illness, i was following that. Apologies if I caused offence it was not intended.

CameronDev,

The original post referred to it as a mental illness, and claimed that was a reason to ignore their contribution. I was simply pointing out the silliness of that logic. I dont think its a mental illness, amd I have absolutely no problem with the trans community.

CameronDev,

I didnt say anything about trans people in my original comment, and deliberately didnt quote the original post as its language disgusts me. Again, sorry for any offence caused, it was not intentional.

CameronDev, (edited )

I think you mean months, and your comment isn’t visible?

Edit: link took me somewhere strange :/

CameronDev,

Bizarre, that link takes me to a completely different post. Apologies, I can see the post and comment if i type it into a browser.

CameronDev,

I routinely 100% my root volume accidentally (thanks docker), but my machine has never crashed, it does tend to cause other issues though. Does having a full /usr, /var or /tmp not cause other issues, if not full crashes?

CameronDev,

Thats what i thought as well tbh. But it sounded like they knew something else.

CameronDev,

Managing all that seems like a lot of effort, and given my disk issues havent yet been fatal, ill probably not worry about going that far. Thanks for the info though.

CameronDev,

Getting the size wrong and needing to resize is the effort part for me. Resizing/moving my partitions is always a pain.

CameronDev,

Last time i used LVM was way back in fedora 8 days, when it was the default partition. It was super annoying to use, as gparted didnt support it, and live cds often had trouble with it. Having to read doco to resize it was pretty not good for a newbie to linux. Has it improved since?

CameronDev,

Thats good to know, thank you for that info, I might look into it next time i have to reinstall.

CameronDev,

Yup, for sure, but while a nation state can risk exploitting a zero day to turn on your microphone, an ad tech company certainly can’t. As soon as it get patched they’d be ruined.

CameronDev,

Oh, absolutely. Google/apple/MS definitely could do this. But some no-name company? Not really.

CameronDev,

They are literally publically claiming that they have a zero day (or at least a zero day level capability). Google/Apple would be all over it trying to fix it. Cyber security researchers would be all over it as well.

NSA can get away with using 0 days for years because they keep quiet about them, and dont use them frivilously.

CameronDev,

The web interface still works? Might need chrome for it to work, it was broken in firefox last time i tried it.

CameronDev,

None of those compelled speech examples include national security though, which has its own level of rules and courts. (I am not American or a lawyer, so i may be wrong).

And if a company can be compelled to hand over customer data, why wouldnt they be hand over access to the systems that update the canaries?

The other issue is thar once a canary is triggered, it cant be reset, which means that XXX agency can trigger the canary with something meaningless, and then its forever untrustworthy.

You may well be correct, and they are sufficient, but i am not convinced that canaries work, especially against the higher level adversaries.

CameronDev,

A failed warrant canary is effectively a triggered warrant canary. If its triggered, you have to assume the company has been issued a warrant, and is therefore vulnerable.

CameronDev,

Wikipedia does claim that patriot act subpeonas can penalise any disclosure of the subpeona. But i am not a lawyer, and afaik this is untested (or at least undisclosed :/ )

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary

Some subpoenas, such as those covered under 18 U.S.C. §2709© (enacted as part of the USA Patriot Act), provide criminal penalties for disclosing the existence of the subpoena to any third party, including the service provider’s users.

In September 2014, U.S. security researcher Moxie Marlinspike wrote that “every lawyer I’ve spoken to has indicated that having a ‘canary’ you remove or choose not to update would likely have the same legal consequences as simply posting something that explicitly says you’ve received something.”

I think my point is that a gag order with a long time out essentially kills the canary, even if it doesnt affect the vast majority of the services users.

Thanks for your response though, I appreciate the additional information.

CameronDev,

Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that warrent canaries were a broken concept. Anyone with the power to submit a warrant to a company also has the ability to prevent the company from triggering their canary.

CameronDev,

They typically have a date for the message and the date for the next update. If they miss their update, they have failed.

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