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Comment Re:Interesting (Score 1) 62

In my experience with security-heavy organizations, they are so anal in some respects about security that they end making things way worse.

In one case security was so "strict" that it took months to get a login account, so people just installed their own linux boxes to work on, or shared their passwords. Password strings had to comprise of 27 (!) characters. People just ended up writing them on pieces of paper kept under their keyboards.

At one car manufacturer I worked at, security absolutely demanded that a certain security software was installed on every linux system, even though the software didn't work on linux. But hey, they could tick off a box on an Excel spreadsheet.

Comment Re:As far as I'm concerned (Score 3, Interesting) 29

Unnecessary modules take up memory. That doesn't matter much on a system with 16GB RAM, but it does for an embedded device.

The vulnerability discussed in the article proves modules that aren't needed are best left out - otherwise the vulnerability would be present and active in every Linux machine in the world.

Modules can be loaded on demand, for instance when a "file" in /dev is read. These files are accessible to anyone - even if you don't have permission to read them, just attempting to do so can load the module. With so many vulnerabilities coming our way this is a brilliant and easy fix.

I hope he gets a shout-out at the next FOSDEM, which is held in Brussels. Judging by his name he won't live far away.

Comment Re:META is doing this to make them quit (Score 1) 93

Depends on the EU country. In mine they'd have to show they're doing a reorg, but that's a low bar. Employees who get canned have the right to outplacement services, etc. Older employees can sometimes get pre-pension status where the company pays until they retire.

They'd have to make an agreement with the unions too, who are the ones negotiating the above.

Comment Re: happy (Score 1) 49

It's not as if wintertime didn't exist before we had solar; nuclear plants always had to vary their output according to the seasons. People will also be using electricity for heating much more as gas is phased out, you can't even get new gas connections anymore in Belgium, and new gas heaters and diesel oil heaters are against the law now.

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