There’s yet another Linux kernel exploit based on container functions, here’s the result when run as user_t on a SE Linux system: $ ./packet_edit_meme [*] target /bin/su as uid 1000;[...]
Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders wrote a disturbing and informative article about the use of AI by the US government [1]. Bruce Schneier wrote an interesting blog post about[...]
Killing Processes One of the features of systemd that is most controversial is the option to kill user processes when the user logs out. That initially killed screen/tmux/nohup processes too.[...]
My Current Thinkpad In 2018 I reviewed a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen6 that was assigned to me for work [1]. In April last year I wrote about the failings of[...]
Hamming Codes ECC RAM corrects errors that occur in memory before it gets to the CPU. The most common form of ECC is the Hamming Code [1] which when it[...]
I’ve just filed a Debian bug report about libproc-processtable-perl giving bad errors when SE Linux denies access to files under /proc [1]. Ran into unknown state (hex char: 0) at[...]
This is amusing, a flaw in the crypto-currency Zcash allowed generating Zcash from nothing and there’s no way to know if anyone did that [1]. Cory Doctorow wrote an insightful[...]
There is a new Linux kernel exploit out named Dirty Clone [1]. The first thing to do to exploit this is to create a container with a separate network namespace[...]
While watching a YouTube video I saw an advert for the Plaud AI Note Taker [1]. The Plaud device looks pretty good for what it does, taking notes and managing[...]
After getting a HP Z4 G4 tower server/workstation to house my Intel Battlemage GPU [1] I’ve been playing around with some GPU stuff. For years I’ve been just buying GPUs[...]