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Re:Hacking up a fix for the broken AppleTalk kernel module i... by userbinator on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:35PM (#24025864)
The problem here is that Ubuntu’s kernel modules are signed.

It's easy to bypass, as the article shows, but also sad that this user-hostile practice has spread to Linux. I'd expect this for Windows or Mac, but not Linux.

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Re:Hacking up a fix for the broken AppleTalk kernel module i... by Jonnax on Sunday August 02, 2020 @05:32AM (#24027524)
It's not a user hostile practice if you have control over it.

Do you consider signing keys in apt packages to also be user hostile?

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