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Today in Techrights

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

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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
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-06-02 to 2024-06-08
    1478 /n/2024/06/02/statCounter_Bing_Has_Lost_Market_Share_Since_the_Chatbot_Hype_i.shtml
    1248 /n/2024/06/07/Firefox_is_Dying_and_China_s_Opera_Already_Outgrew_Mozilla_in_M.shtml
    1179 /n/2024/06/05/The_EPO_is_Boiling_the_Staff_According_to_the_Central_Staff_Com.shtml
    1067 /n/2024/06/07/In_Asia_Mozilla_Firefox_Already_Fell_to_1_Below_Samsung_Interne.shtml
    978 /n/2024/06/01/The_War_on_Free_Software_Reporters_Part_III_Doxing_and_LARPing.shtml
    920 /n/2024/06/08/GNU_Linux_Now_20_in_Norway_s_Desktops_Laptops_Over_10_Across_Al.shtml

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