For my non-tech followers, specifically my activist followers, you should know that the entire tech industry has been freaking out for the last 36 hours because pretty much all computers are now totally fucked.
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Yes. And people with high-risk profiles should update, update, update. Apple silently fixed one attack vector in December. The big 3 clouds (Amazon, Google, Azure) also claim fixes are in place. The unmaintained, outdated boxes are the real problem.
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Ah yes, precisely the kind of devices that activists have to often work with.
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Yep. And they possibly are still wide open to heartbleed, shell shock, stagefright etc. We really must change that. Bugs will always come at surprising moments.
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I was just thinking, on the way home, that it would be handy to have a tool that verified your susceptibility to all these bugs.
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Could you trust such a thing?
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I would trust it, if it was FOSS certainly. Would RedHat sponsor such a project?
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