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  • non_burglar@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•The Quest for Reasonably Secure Operating Systems
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    1 day ago

    Sure, but if the compromise stays within its own app, like for a browser, sandboxing won’t help.

    The bulk, and I mean like 95% of the compromises I see are normal employees clicking on things that “look legit”.

    Excel is now wrapped in a browser. Discord, almost all work apps are all wrapped in a browser. So you can be completely locked down between apps like grapheneos, but if you are choosing to open links, no amount of sandboxing is going to save you.

    This is why we deploy knowbe4 and proofpoint, cause people are a liabilities, even to themselves.

  • non_burglar@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•The Quest for Reasonably Secure Operating Systems
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    2 days ago

    You aren’t going to like this:

    Because if you got yourself pwned by a malicious link in discord, your account highjacked, etc., then having discord in a vm, container, chroot, jail, or whatever won’t help you on the server-side api abuse that got you pwned. In this case, you yourself should have been more vigilant.

    From your article, and with respect, I think its nice you’re thinking more about security, but you’re mixing up quite a few concepts, and you should probably make smaller moves toward security that you actually understand, instead of going all-in on qubes with only a vague concept of the difference between sandboxing and paravirtualization.

  • non_burglar@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Grub and the Microsoft Ransomware
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    2 days ago

    The idea itself is fine (not getting into how not cool it is that a vendor holds the key to your bitlocker-encrypted disk once secure boot is turned on).

    But so is WEP for WiFi, but no one uses that anymore because it’s considered compromised.

    some are

    65% of all TPM keys is “some”, I suppose. But that’s not the issue. Keys leak, it happens. The more troubling part is that Microsoft will cheerfully use the leaked key on your affected TPM and you’ll get the “safe” check mark in your next audit.

    And this was warned about in 2011 when it started rolling out.

    As for FUD, I don’t have a “fear” angle here. I can’t tell you how to live your life, use secure boot if you feel safe doing so.

  • non_burglar@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Grub and the Microsoft Ransomware
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    3 days ago

    If everyone has a copy of my passwords and authenticator keys, that wouldn’t suddenly make 2 factor auth a compromised idea.

    Not sure how this relates. If you’re saying it was a good idea at the outset, then sure… If the keys hadn’t almost all been leaked by AMI and Phoenix. MS was supposed to have created a Microsoft Certified hardware vendor program for this, which fell apart pretty quickly.

    Secure Boot is a joke, both practically (there are many, many tools in use to bypass it) and in my professional circles, it is considered obsolete like WEP. My audit controls for Secure Boot demand that an endpoint management solution like InTune is deployed.

    You don’t have to take my word for it, obviously. I’m not trying to tell you how to live your life.

  • non_burglar@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Blog post: The Linux kernel is just a program
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    3 days ago

    Nice, and good job.

    With respect:

    • You are describing the init process, after the boot stuff is done. Not sure if you meant that or not.
    • vmlinuz is the bootable kernel image distinct from the kernel itself. It contains the compressed bootable ELF kernel image (which itself contains bvmlinuz) and gzip decompress function, bsetup code, bbootsect system.map, and a handful of commands for the kernel image to bootstrap itself.
    • Kernel space doesn’t stop once user space is allocated memory and initialized, they both run at the same time. Maybe I read that wrong, but it didn’t seem right to me.

    I want to be careful here not to discourage you, this is great exploration!

    I realize I’m handing out unsolicited advice here, but when I was first learning about Unix/Linux kernels in the Solaris and HP/UX days, the thing that helped the process “click” for me was compiling a kernel and building an ELF. And if you’re going to continue on this journey (which I hope you do), you should probably read a bit on memory segmentation and broadly about assembly instructions.

    Good luck!

  • non_burglar@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Bash scripting question
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    4 days ago

    Your find statement is not creating a variable “file” because it’s missing the first part of the for loop. This:

    find ./ -type f \( -iname \*.jpg -o -iname \*.png \) | while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do

    should be this:

    for file in "$(find ./ -type f \( -iname \*.jpg -o -iname \*.png \))"; do

    However, the above command would find all files in current and subdirectories. You can just evaluate current context much more simply. I tested the below, it seems to work.

    #! /bin/bash
echo "This script will rename all files in this directory with unique names. Continue? (Y/N)"
read proceed
if [[ "$proceed" == "Y" ]]; then
	echo "Proceed"
               for file in *.{jpg,JPG,png,PNG}; do
                    echo "in loop"
                    echo "$file"
                    dir=$(dirname "$file")
                    base=$(basename "$file")
                    echo "'$dir'/'$base'"
                    new_name="$dir/$(uuidgen -r)"
                    echo "Renaming ${file} to ${new_name}"
                    #mv "$file" "$new_name" #uncomment to actually perform the rename.
               done
	echo "After loop"
else
	echo "Cancelling"
fi

    You could also find matching files first, evaluate if anything is found and add a condition to exit if no files are found.

    Edit: who the fuck downvoted this, it literally works and the for loop was the issue.