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

[concernedfossdev]

Corporations are in bed with the governments. 
(Think Intel's built-in professional backdoor first just known as "VPro" then 
broken out as the "Intel Management Engine", which can always be remotely 
re-enabled)

You expect them to value security for the individual?

Many of us have been benefiting from grsecurity since the early 2000s.
It was part of linux mandrake's "secure" kernel back then.

There was also a security script: bastille-linux.

Now grsecurity is going closed it seems.

Now bastille-linux is dead, it will not work on modern non-systemd distros
(either TCL/TK has become incompatable with old scripts, or Perl has somehow 
(it uses both))
and we are told by non-systemd distros like devuan "a real system admin does it 
all by hand, every time"
Yea, 100s of changes, by hand, every time.

So the anti-systemd distros are just a smoke screen.

Everything is falling apart.

The free-software ideals have been abandoned.

June 8 2016 11:42 PM, "IngeGNUe" <ingegnue@riseup.net> wrote:
> On 06/05/16 00:58, 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]
> 
> I suggest that a company with decent values hire the author of
> GRSecurity to continue working on it, so that the author need not hold
> the software hostage in return for money. It's corporations who benefit
> the most from the project and corporations should pay, but not at the
> expense of software freedom for the rest of the world.