01-22-2018, 08:47 PM
[member=7109]Moltke[/member]
Take solace in the fact that you are running an Ubuntu based distro with LL, and that the LL developer is very keen to do all he can to mitigate the mess for LL users. Also realize that this is an Enterprise (not home user) high risk vulnerabiity more than anything else, with unfortunate geo-political implications that will make it very expensive for large commerce oriented providers to avoid security breaches, and one likely to use multiple latent (currently inactive or not perceived as threatenting) software presences to acheive an advanced persistance threat and exploit. Just the fact that it is publicly known means that it is already probably tied to some latent APT. Computing is essentially a narrative, and as such this computing security issue will become the most recursively exploited in history, because the only real reslotution is transparency and trust, and to compound it all I fully expect the US government, some EU members, and certainly China to disallow certain of the APT mitigations as we are entering a difficult and very grey area of some nations' security efforts. Truthfully some political sabotage has already happened.
Your PC is not particularly at risk, just all the servers you connect to on the web who do track your information as much as they can in most cases. Pray for the web providers if you are religious. I do.
I will publish my views by the end of February. I will post the site when I do.
TC
Take solace in the fact that you are running an Ubuntu based distro with LL, and that the LL developer is very keen to do all he can to mitigate the mess for LL users. Also realize that this is an Enterprise (not home user) high risk vulnerabiity more than anything else, with unfortunate geo-political implications that will make it very expensive for large commerce oriented providers to avoid security breaches, and one likely to use multiple latent (currently inactive or not perceived as threatenting) software presences to acheive an advanced persistance threat and exploit. Just the fact that it is publicly known means that it is already probably tied to some latent APT. Computing is essentially a narrative, and as such this computing security issue will become the most recursively exploited in history, because the only real reslotution is transparency and trust, and to compound it all I fully expect the US government, some EU members, and certainly China to disallow certain of the APT mitigations as we are entering a difficult and very grey area of some nations' security efforts. Truthfully some political sabotage has already happened.
Your PC is not particularly at risk, just all the servers you connect to on the web who do track your information as much as they can in most cases. Pray for the web providers if you are religious. I do.
I will publish my views by the end of February. I will post the site when I do.
TC
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