[Video] The Fake Security Complex (and Why You Should Not Trust Canonical)
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Canonical Adopts Fake Security
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THE "tech world" is full of fake security (plus mandated back doors) and snakeoil like a "trust" cartel. This centralised cartel is how Mark Shuttleworth became so rich and started Canonical. It was never about security, he made money by issuing some bytes, i.e. it's like mining fake-coins.
Well, fake security is a big and growing problem.
Dr. Andy Farnell recently did a lengthy article about it. Bad design is disguised as "shiny" and insecure-by-design protocols are being falsely marketed as "end-to-end". One must be careful who and what to trust. Liars and charlatans are abundant; some of them even pretend to be computer scientists (they're not!) while viciously attacking those who are.
Last night we noticed that adoption of the Linux Foundation's Let's Encrypt fell again (below 5%) in Gemini Space (or Geminispace). More capsules choose to sign their own certificates and that generally seems to work. Our capsule served 11,723 requests yesterday and we don't need to worry about some Certificate Authority issuing a "permission" to be "trusted" (they also issue certificates to malware, so it's rather meaningless anyway).
Today's last video deals with this very short article (Gemini URL) because someone has asked for us to revisit fake security. In this case we consider "Clown Computing" and the "CoCo" hype. It's faker than fake. It's one heck of a circus, shilled mostly by clowns who aren't computer scientists and rely on brochures that target "the suits".
"The topic warrants more depth," I was reminded, but we covered it many times in the past, so aside from the video consider old articles like:
- 'Confidential Computing'? More Like a Giant Back Door.
- CC Used to Mean Creative Commons, Now the Linux Foundation et al Associate CC With DRM and Spying (Chaos Computer Club Also at Risk)
- Mark Shuttleworth's (MS's) Canonical is Promoting Microsoft This Week (Surveillance Slanted as 'Confidential')
- IBM's Red Hat is Promoting Microsoft Azure. It Even Calls Mass Surveillance "Confidential" (Same Lie Microsoft Pays Canonical to Spread).
We're in serious trouble when the leaders of the Linux Foundation work for Bill Gates and openly promote Microsoft talking points about security.
As an associate has just reminded us, "ransomware (and thus Microsoft) is recognised as harmful to national security, combine that with the VA breaches etc." (There's also the breach of Microsoft's entire infrastructure several times lately)
Do not ever follow a Microsofter as a role model on security. Worse yet, don't let one present outsourcing to Microsoft as "security" because in practice it is the exact opposite. That's just digital colonialism. We know who the forces of occupation are and who the "village fool" is, trying to sell us all out for personal gain. This includes Shuttleworth, an exploitative opportunist. █