Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 09, 2024,
updated Jun 09, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Debian Project Does Not Care About Freedom Anymore, It Only Cares About Its Image and Elite Interests Inside the Project

   Murdock the father (Lawrence L. Murdock) was a professor, a scientist. Good scientists can handle the truth rather than attack it.

2. The Notorious, Catastrophic 2008 Debian OpenSSH Vulnerability

   In May 2008, a bug was discovered in the Debian OpenSSL package

   New

3. [Meme] Debbie Yan Diversity: Can't Code, But Have Many Hair Styles

   Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!

4. GNU/Linux Leaps Past 3% in Brunei Darussalam

   ChromeOS included

5. The Mainstream Press and National Media Became Like Tabloids

   The standards of journalism have dropped, even if budgets have not

6. Preserving Information About Debian's SSH Blunder (Amid Revelations About Edward Brocklesby (ejb) and "Proximity to Oxford and GCHQ")

   Not Edward Snowden but a very rogue actor

7. Gemini Links 08/06/2024: EMF Camp 2024, Local RSS File as Notification System

   Links for the day

8. Links 08/06/2024: More Dramatisation of Bird Flu, Further Chinese Incursions at Sea

   Links for the day

9. Djibouti: Windows Falls Below 15% (It Used to be Almost 100%!), Android Surges to Almost 80%

   Microsoft is losing Africa

10. SPAM Factory: Fake 'Articles' About Linux Still Published by Brittany Day (LinuxSecurity)

    The text is spewed by a chatbot/LLM, as usual

11. Links 08/06/2024: e-cigarettes Ban, Windows to Hoard Screenshot of Use Despite Uproar

    Links for the day

12. The Death of News, Even National Broadcasters

    Yleisradio Oy is doomed

13. GNU/Linux Now 20%+ in Norway's Desktops/Laptops, Over 10% Across All Devices

    Talk about changes!

14. [Meme] Sometimes the Timing is Everything

    After 4 months of no news at all the Debian "news" site just woke up to attack the messenger

15. A Page to Keep an Eye On (Because Debian 'Elites' Don't Want You to)

    "Our products just aren't engineered for security." -Brian Valentine, Microsoft executive

16. Free Society Cannot Coexist With Mass Surveillance

    Mr. Assange spoke of the effects of surveillance

17. The War on Free Software Reporters - Part VI - Stalking

    One day we'll shed more light on the surveillance we've been subjected to

18. Techrights Statement on Risk That Debian is Still Infiltrated by Agents and Spies

    Under the surface

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 07, 2024

    IRC logs for Friday, June 07, 2024

21. Links 07/06/2024: “Bird Flu” Alarming, Best Buy Against Repairs

    Links for the day

22. Gemini Links 07/06/2024: End of Two-player Chess Game for Gemini

    Links for the day

23. [Meme] So Much Easier to Just Attack the Person Reporting the Compromise

    Sometimes the so-called 'security' experts have no actual background in security

24. Edward Brockelsby: how expelled hacker took over Debian's SSH2 package

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

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