Dear Linux Weenies: Quit "deprecating" standard tools. It's stupid. You're breaking compatibility with LITERALLY EVERY OTHER UNIX ON EARTH and you need to stop.https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/976156288638840832 …
(1) Spectre can't be mitigated. (2) On a good distro, they're always recompiled with distro's current compiler & defaults.(3) They're not in the class of stuff affected by Spectre (not dealing with any sensitive data).
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The "On a good distro" bit makes me chuckle because it's very true, and because it's true it also points to the incredible inconsistency within the Linux community and associated OS distributions. OS Roulette… or maybe Package Pachinko.
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(I'm saying this as a dyed-in-the-wool BSD guy, where I know every new release of the OS means everything in the core OS was recompiled with the new toolchain - it's not something we ever even have to think about.)
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There's a lot of bad practices in BSD package management too, namely the whole world being one giant make without any easy way to build individual parts & w/o any portability...
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I just mentioned one attack, and we only covered a few tools - but at least one runs setuid.
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