lol, grsecurity went fully closed, probably in an attempt to stop the Kernel Self Protection Project from making it obsolete
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What innovation has the Kernel Self Protection brought over Grsec/PaX? I don't really see them as competing
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None. It is a feature by feature (partially implemented) rip off, even acknowledged.
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It includes the important feature of not being run by spender. Also, it's legal (unlike grsec which is a GPL violation) and mergeable.
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1) It's multiple years behind in terms of sec features 2) Grsec became unmergeable by Linus unwillingness to care about sec many years ago
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Replying to @_pablosole_ @marcan42 and
3) saying grsecurity is illegal is just gross misunderstanding of licensing, literally fake news...
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grsecurity's RAP includes a GPLv2-only compiler plugin (uses headers) for GPLv3-only GCC. QED.
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@paxteam thinks this somehow makes it illegal to use with userspace code, through a hilariously convoluted (wrong) interpretation of the GPL
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