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Not to mention all the servers. How would the datacenters, web hosts, and ISPs react if Linux were suddenly forbidden?
by Ieghaehia9 5y ago
Not to mention all the servers. How would the datacenters, web hosts, and ISPs react if Linux were suddenly forbidden?
- dane-pgp 5y agoWeb hosts don't generally need to make outbound connections, but in any case, companies will be allowed to register specific domains / IP addresses with a government regulator, on the condition that they don't support E2E encryption (and, depending on the contents of the site/service, they may have to hand over a copy of their TLS private key, and not use forward secrecy). Also, of course there will be government-allowed Linux versions, which implement Secure Boot and have a package manager that only installs approved apps. Admittedly, I'm not sure if this theoretical government would stop people writing their own software, but they could demand that OSes only allow "approved" apps to send packets over the internet. This would also prevent people developing "piracy" apps.
- theonlybutlet 5y agoIt'd be too cumbersome, there'll always be a new 'hack' to install a different package, then there's the ability to inject your messages and to send over these 'approved' apps and little to no way of ensuring such a huge infrastructure are all up to date on 'security' patches which stop these exploits.