Russia. Ha. No my friend. Kaspersky. Ha. No my friend. Closed source. Ha no, and you ain't ma friend.
Kaspersky OS
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#92My suspicion is that most attempts to create a better OS for IoT will fail for political reasons. AFIAKT, one really important characteristic of Linux (and JavaScript also) for large tech companies is that they can control their own stacks, without having to license tech from another corporation, but still have the benefit of network effects. Samsung have Tizen, Google have ChromeOS etc. etc. At the component level,…
Here is my 50 cent.
Zephyr OS from Linux foundation:
https://www.zephyrproject.org/
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#93Only use it if you want to send all of your information to FSB (modern KGB). Evgeniy Kasperskiy has friends in government, police and FSB. He also is apologet of state surveillance.
What choice do we have? All other operating systems send your information either to NSA or China. State surveillance reigns supreme.
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#94One of their developers said they're using C code generators in Haskell in this OS:
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#95Only use it if you want to send all of your information to FSB (modern KGB). Evgeniy Kasperskiy has friends in government, police and FSB. He also is apologet of state surveillance.
What choice do we have? All other operating systems send your information either to NSA or China. State surveillance reigns supreme.
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux don't.
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#96Only use it if you want to send all of your information to FSB (modern KGB). Evgeniy Kasperskiy has friends in government, police and FSB. He also is apologet of state surveillance.
Although I thought the same when I saw it, I think that's unfair. You could just as easily say Symantec/Norton/Microsoft Defender/Windows/Google is CIA/NSA. Since everything's being watched, Kaspersky might be just as much FSB as it is NSA, or any other country that could get its mitts on it. Cisco was definitely completely NSA there for a while, because of the backdoor. China's got Lenovo and every smart appliance, phone, and TV made in China, CIA/NSA have Dell, Korea and Japan have all of their smart TVs, phones, appliances, etc.
I'm being a little sarcastic, as obviously, they aren't watching everyone all of the time, really, and most devices' backdoors, for those that have them, are unused. I'm fine with all of it, for the most part. Yeah, I'm not perfect, and I don't want all my info made public or sold, but we give up much, much more just by everything being online. Our banks, investments, to some extent our medical history, geneology, likes/dislikes, actions, schedule... it's all there. Each of us could be simulated with all of the info they have at this point, but they can't fully- yet. Now they just have to keep and mine all the data- which they do, but it's selective; it'll be a lot less selective about what is analyzed as time goes on. Then one or more AI's will decide what will happen to all that information, and us, if we don't all kill our planet or each other before then.
Best thing to do? Use the hell out of Kaspersky OS. Use Red Flag Linux. Just take all of your banking info and give it to the Nigerian whose been asking for it. If we all just gave up on security, what would humanity do with all of that trust? Ok, maybe not such a good idea... maybe paranoia can help you be a little more secure, for now. However, if it's open source and you build it yourself- then at least you could look at it, if you wanted, and had time.
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#97Only use it if you want to send all of your information to FSB (modern KGB). Evgeniy Kasperskiy has friends in government, police and FSB. He also is apologet of state surveillance.
What choice do we have? All other operating systems send your information either to NSA or China. State surveillance reigns supreme.
Great sweeping accusations require citations to back them up. Without any citations, the above statement is meaningless hyperbole.
There are quite a few open source operating systems that you can personally verify that they protect your information appropriately.
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#98Haha! I am curious how long will it take to have it completely cracked.
It likely comes pre-compromised. See other discussion on Kaspersky's "dodgy history".
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
OpenBSD is pretty popular in the security community , and is as FLOSS as it gets.
Yet it's not widely used as embedded OS. I never saw any router with OpenBSD or web camera. The underlying problem, IMO, is people. They just don't care about security, they want to deliver working device. Also it's not clear how many vulnerabilities, used in real life attacks (like DDOS from IoT devices) are in latest Linux kernel? May be problem not with Linux, but with custom software or lack of updates.
The thing with a BSD project is that it is a kernel, a distribution of slightly modified and configured 3rd party applications, and a bunch of 1st party applications.
OpenBSD project includes stuff like OpenSSH, time sync tools, an SSL implementation, and these are very widely used. Are those devices OpenBSD based though?
Similarly with BSD code, you can just use it and you only need to credit it with the code, so lots of OpenBSD kernel code will be in other systems with no user visible attribution. If MacOS kernel contains OpenBSD code, even big chunks, is it OpenBSD based?
With Linux, GPL means its kind of visible when someone is using it, and GPL encourages you not to integrate your software with it too tightly, so you get an obviously Linux based device with proprietary code on the top. With BSD, you can integrate much more tightly, only ever need to give out a binary blob, and no one would know you were using it.
That said, OpenBSD is kind of server oriented, and FreeBSD would be a more popular starting point for a device, but you might well crib OpenBSD for best practices.
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#100Quite literally the opposite of any reasonable definition of security. "Security" isn't magic fairy dust, or a tagline, it is a social property that arises only _after_ many years of use and adaptation
> "everything has been built from scratch... it’s simpler and safer to start from the ground up and do everything correctly. Which is just what we did."