The amount of advertising for this tool in recent times is starting to look a lot like astroturfing.
The amount of advertising for this tool in recent times is starting to look a lot like astroturfing.
Not my post btw, just sharing the link :)
Sorry for the reddit link, I don’t know of a mirror. This was posted just today, running on an EeePC:
So your approach to security is that you cross your fingers and hope?
Ventoy has a lot of work to do if they want to earn our trust:
Remove BLOBs from the source tree #2795
This ticket has been open now for 5 months with no engagement from the maintainer.
Your install media and anything that modifies your EFI partition or UEFI firmware settings needs to be the most trusted part of your system. And here is Ventoy, a tool that looks open source and then includes a large number of binary blobs in its repository, with no indication of how they were compiled. This is horrible security practice and for me that’s enough for me to never use it.
You can also see a discussion on the subject on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40689629
A much better alternative, if you want a multi-boot USB, is GLIM: https://github.com/thias/glim
It’s just a collection of Grub configs, so very simple and easy to audit.
I used Ubuntu from version 8.04 to 18.04 and not once did I have a successful upgrade between major versions. There is always something that gets broken to the point that a reinstall is necessary.
they can’t be jammed the way radio can.
I wonder how well these satellite laser links do with various types of cloud cover.
By repeating their rhetoric, even as a joke, it’s just giving oxygen to people who don’t deserve any form of publicity whatsoever. It would be better not to reference these batshit-insane conspiracy theories and then perhaps they would die more quickly.
This story is about French/space/communications/technology. Not American/politics/racist/conspiracy. Not one genre overlap, so there’s no reason to even bring it up here. Maybe leave these jokes to the American politics threads.
Wait until you see the ones that let you choose between “Accept All” and “Subscribe to monthly plan 4.99/mo”
I saw a website like that the other week and it was based in an EU country.
Got a link to that?
Can’t wait to read about it telling someone to put glue on pizza.
It’s not reading the contents of RAM via EM emanations, it’s using the EM emanations caused by certain memory access patterns as a side channel to exfiltrate data. Of course, that data could be anything, including whatever is in RAM, but the point is that you need to be running the code that generates the necessary memory access patterns to transmit the bits of data. This is not like TEMPEST where you can reconstruct a video display just using the emanations.
If it was plausible this would be bigger news. There’s a claim like this every couple of months and none have held up to scrutiny so far.
Porges believes
This is an interesting article and yet you’ve chosen to quote the most speculative unscientific part of it from the final paragraph.
“Have you tried going outside” is not a scientific cure for depression.
You can see the planned specs for the two different models on their indiegogo page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/emudeck-machines-retro-emulation-console-pc#/
I’m guessing they have a pre-selected all-in-one board (designed for mobile devices) and they’re just designing a chassis around it. There’s still a lot that could go wrong, but it’s a bit more achievable than actually designing, testing and assembling your own board.
Discussed yesterday in !opensource@lemmy.ml:
Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months