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

[Divan Santana]

concernedfossdev@teknik.io writes:

> 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.

Interesting thread and concerning...

I'm not 100% on what exactly is happening though.

Is grsec violating the GPL but not sharing it's sources? It sounds like
they might be. Surely the FSF would then take action as they can't
legally do that?

I'm using grsec kernel on parabola and am generally a fan of the
security enhanced kernel.

Lack of support on systemd-less systems is certainly concerning.
Ah systemd, the trojan horse.