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The admins probably got grumpy because a bajilion HN bots querying for link previews DDOS'ed the whole bugzilla.

Version 12.0 will be out shortly after, around 1970.

Yes, builtin CDN offload is actively under discussion as part of v2 protocol changes, but there is nothing currently available in released versions. The "repo" command that comes w…

That's the TL;DR of the article. ;)

We offer rsync for that purpose.

Thank you very much for the offer. I'm not sure I can easily take you up on that, as SF and London are about equally far from Montreal. I'll try to see if perhaps I can do an on-ai…

> Just turn it into a PDF with slides for goodness sakes. Hey, I'm not the ones who linked to slides.com. :) The PDF version is linked off the main conference page: http://kernsec.…

It's not really a recommendation. It's presented as one of the free software projects attempting to tackle workstation security. Another one is SubgraphOS.

I'm sorry you all have to read just the slide deck. It's an hour-long presentation and a lot of content is simply not in the deck. :( Unfortunately, every time I've presented it, t…

I'm sure we are all beautiful people, which is why I omitted that part. :)

Of course, if the company leadership doesn't care, then you will have a hard time convincing them why the upfront effort of "doing it right" is worth it. When dealing with this sit…

The slides interface is supposed to be for the presenter, really, not for the general public. The benefit to the presenter is if someone from the audience says "I'd like you to go …

> Any security checklist should start with a description both how the machine is to be used and the expected threats models. It states right at the top that the target audience is …

Not everyone has an evil agenda. And, if you read the guide, it specifically mentions the downsides of SecureBoot and offers alternatives (AntiEvilMaid).

You actually tend to never use the root password on a modern workstation -- just sudo. The situations where you have to use a root password are usually if something has gone wrong …

It's just mentioned in passing, alongside other recommendations.

Correction: The Linux Foundation is a 501(c)(6) non-profit consortium.

https://kernel.org/hurr-durr-ima-sheep.html

It redirects to a site with a valid certificate belonging to "The Linux Foundation." To a domain with a whois record belonging to The Linux Foundation. With DNS servers belonging t…

Clearly something only the pirates would do.