Re:Pegasus spyware found on journalists’ phones, French inte...
by mustafa_pasi on Monday August 02, 2021 @02:58PM
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So according to you Linux is compromised?
Re:Pegasus spyware found on journalists’ phones, French inte...
by mrtksn on Monday August 02, 2021 @03:04PM
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The point is, you wouldn't know unless you have complete understanding on every aspect of your device and every bit of the software.
Nobody would be installing a Linux kernel and use the phone like that, they would be installing a distro. There are so many vectors of attack, the person who puts the distro together doesn't need to have malicious intent, the supply chain could be compromised.
Re:Pegasus spyware found on journalists’ phones, French inte...
by failuser on Monday August 02, 2021 @03:45PM
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Probably not intentionally, but there are likely a bunch of 0-day exploits we don’t know about.
Re:Pegasus spyware found on journalists’ phones, French inte...
by theyellowkid on Monday August 02, 2021 @03:27PM
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You know, it's getting so big and warty that I'd be surprised if it wasn't.
I bet you, that image will be provided by the trustworthy people from NSO, free of charge or at a price! Whatever makes you trust their image.
IMHO devices should be root-able but with high barriers of entry, something like soldering should be involved. If you are after doing something that you don't understand but a stranger on the internet told you to do it you shouldn't be able to do it.
I just want to remind you that quite recently a few police agencies come together, built a "secure messaging app", fed it to the criminals and tracked all their communication until gather enough information to take down their entire operation.[0]
Or the time when CIA run a Swiss encryption company[1]
[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27429311
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22297963