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Everyone who knows anything about security and follows linux distros, of which mint is popular enough for it not to slip under the radar; these people should know mint doesn't have security advisories nor mailing lists nor a security "team" such as it's grandparent distro. What is canonical thinking? They must like stirring the shit up. What do they have to gain from doing this? They're already on everyone's shitlist.

This is so dangerous. Shutting down the INTERNET worldwide would have more drastic affects than a small nuclear explosion would have. Even if you don't think the top echelons would use this for nefarious purposes, I doubt the US government is competent enough to manage these abilities. I back this up with a bankrupt economy; we're stretched so thin and the government isn't even capable of keeping a website operational, and the NSA isn't strong enough to protect from people literally just walking away with classified information. No one should have this power.

They could also have an extremely complex sudo setup.

As much as I don't like to reference pop culture, South Park is an exception. Their recent NSA episode sums this up well. People who knowingly purchase their products have no reason to complain. This especially includes the Chinese, of whom none of contract-signing age should have any doubt the nefarious uses of technology.

we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor Oh wait; NSA I didn't mean that. Let's all just be Facebook friends.

Is selling your company for billions of dollars considered failure? I'd love to cash out at 1% of that and enjoy the rest of my life.

I'm not against the existence of the NSA. That said, I think we can all agree that the bureaucracy and oversight have failed us in several ways. Gen. Alexander spoke at Blackhat about the internal oversight which we must "trust"; media has exposed the repeated failings of said oversight, which apparently filled with individuals who are too embedded to care about rocking the boat for the common good. Then we are told the NSA is going to downsize. Then we are told Snowden went rouge and bypassed all billions of dollars worth of defense. I think it's time we reevaluate how this whole thing works. The official solution thus seems to be to get rid of everyone except for a select few of trusted individuals who will most likely receive more frequent and thorough polygraphs etc... just to keep their job. Since this is the solution, why not just let us the people more access to things. What I mean by this is, if I live in a city, and there are publicly bought surveillance cameras, why should I not have full access to the feed? If I see something on the street I call the police anyway. There is a lot to this but I just thought I would share. We're going to spend more money for an continuously law-dodging centralized bureaucratic unregulated group of people who know better than we do about everything that is around us. Why not lighten the load NSA? You take care of the important stuff and let me have reasonable access to things which my tax dollars have paid for.

Well that is certainly a Grade A analysis.

OpenBSD as a complete OS includes highly modified and integrated services including DNS, Web, SSH, SMTP, NTPD; activating these components is trivial and there are no special compromises or unique approaches to doing so. OpenBSD is simple like any UNIX should be, and that simplicity means running services is quite easy and these services are secure by default. Lots of other OS may not include these patched, and in many cases, original services. If you think it's all about a service-less default install being the goal, you're being shortsighted.

All good news, but ZFS is soon going to hit a ceiling. Oracle has tightened up the license for their ZFS, and who knows if the open source version is ever going to have those features.

Well Reddit is suffering a massive DDoS, strangely.

I couldn't have said it better. I've been running Wheezy for the past two months without issue, and when Debian 7 is released, all I need to do is aptitude update && aptitude upgrade and I will be at 7.

Just change your environment variable, troll.

Can't tell if you're be sarcastic. Trolling advances in security? Why?