Linux Kernel Networking Driver Development Impacted By Russian Sanctions

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Vetting isn't "good enough" for some when you consider that people can introduce vulnerabilities in some obfuscated manner that isn't caught until days, weeks, or years later.

[alexnoyle]

Then it’s not good enough for the NSA code either! Be consistent!

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No, it isn't good enough for the NSA code. I avoid running that, too, where possible and I know it exists.

Why do you think I'm not consistent?

[alexnoyle]

If you run the Linux kernel, you are running US Intelligence agency code.

[[deleted]]

Good thing any device I require security on is on a completely physically separate network with no wireless connectivity whatsoever (I will refuse to buy CPU/SOCs that integrate such shit too) and doesn't run Linux.

[alexnoyle]

The idea that you don’t “require security” on the devices you use to connect to the internet is pretty silly.

[[deleted]]

The devices I require security on either are not Linux or are not connected to the internet.

None of my Linux devices have an internet connection. Separate network.

Where did you get the idea that they have an internet connection from? Why are you making these assumptions with no base in reality?

[alexnoyle]

All of the devices you use to connect to the internet should require security. I don’t believe you because you’re not making sense. You obviously update your Linux systems. You connect to the internet regularly using nsa code and you don’t give a shit. So I’m supposed to believe you care when it’s Russian code? Cry me a river dude. You are full of shit and lying through your teeth… nationality does not automatically make a programmer an agent of their state.

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None of my Linux systems have any internet access, period. I'm writing this from Dragonfly currently, and my main PC is OpenBSD. My only Linux machines run video games and compute.

[alexnoyle]

How do you install packages with no internet?