Wow, Veritasium liefern, als ob es kein Morgen gäbe. Auf dem Weg zur OpenSSH/XZ Backdoor wird so viel fundamentales Linux-Zeug erklärt 👍

The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew

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Very good video from Veritasium about that big backdoor issue on Linux recently:

Of course this is an issue with our trade based society 100%. How? Easy:

  • The incentive to do harm in this society is quite high. For profit, for power that also leads to profit, for the fact that tribes and people are divided into groups trying to outgame the other groups. Like Iran has an incentive to hack USA, USA has an incentive to hack China, Russia has an incentive to hack the EU, and so forth. They can get sensitive information, blackmail, etc.. This is a global situation that has trade (as a practice) as the director of motives. Making people do what they do. Tribes hold onto their own resources, exploit other tribes, etc.. And so fighting with each other is natural.
  • If we lived in a society where trading was not a necessity and provided for all equally, we would have no reason to have tribes with borders, exploit other tribes, fight against each other when we are all in fact a big tribe, the human tribe.

  • The people working on a lot of open source software struggle to work on it since they also have "day jobs". They have to TRADE to survive. Imagine people had access to their basic needs trade-free, via an UBI or whatever. More time to focus on creating secure and better software, more people who can do that. Less of those incentivized to do harm and insert backdoors.
  • Overall it is a cancerous trade society where humans are livestock and wolves. Consuming and being consumed.

    The only sane way out of it is to HELP PEOPLE DETACH FROM THE TRADE SOCIETY. So they can be people and focus on RELEVANT STUFF.

    Else it is a game of those who want to exploit and those who try to stop them. Endless....

    #spam #internet #linux #veritasium #trade #TradeRuinsEverything #trade-free #foss #opensource #exploit #redhat
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    We, like everyone else, couldn't look away from the Veritasium video on the XZ vulnerability.

    While there is a lot to address, an important point of this story sticks out to us at OSTIF- that it was best practices, the secondary review of code before a push, that caught this before disaster struck.

    Watch the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ to learn more details about this incredible story of open source security and community.

    #OSTIF #Veritasium #XZ

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    Eine unendliche Geschichte: Asbest — kein Unglück, eine Entscheidung.

    Das @Veritasium Video "The Asbestos Problem" dokumentiert erneut die dramatischen Schattenseiten einseitigen Profitstrebens. Dasselbe Muster findet sich bei Tabakkonzernen der 1950er, bei DuPonts PFAS, verbleitem Benzin und Mikroplastik: Konzerne wussten, schwiegen und verheimlichten. Erst öffentlicher Aufschrei nach Jahrzehnten erzwang Verhaltensänderung.

    Kapitalismus ist das Rückgrat unserer Gesellschaft. Aber wenn einzelne Konzerne die Ethik begraben, zerstören sie genau die Gesellschaft, für die das System arbeiten soll. Aufgeklärter, verantwortlicher Umgang ist kein Luxus - er ist Selbstverteidigung.

    Hervorragende, belegte Recherche. So sollte Wissenschaftsjournalismus aussehen.

    📺 https://youtu.be/cMx139eTxoc
    📄 Quellen: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DPLHFP2C9SOha_Wy6RkQZ1_A2GVrTPUTj5SuLd5zEKA/edit

    #Wissenschaft #Aufklärung #PFAS #Asbest #Veritasium

    Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought

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    1h documentary by #Veritasium on the #XZ backdoor:
    "The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ
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    Veritasium covers the #xz compromise. This is well done. It starts off explaining open source. It explains encryption and compression. It explains software dependencies. It explains how the back door would have worked. Good watch.

    #Backdoor #Veritasium #CVE #CVE20243094
    https://youtu.be/aoag03mSuXQ

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    I am still in awe after watching "The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster And No One Knew It" from #veritasium. Easily the best video I've ever seen explaining software vulnerabilities and other technologies in such a clear and concise manner.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

    #linux #vulnerability #infosec

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    Today there is a new #veritasium video. Today is a good day!