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Is Linux under the control of the USA gov?
- notorandit 2y agoOfficially it is opensource so answer should be "no". But ... what if you shutdown access to all Linux kernel-related sites and repos?
- notorandit 2y agoOr shutdown most of the money sources?
- Suppafly 2y agoLike every title ending in a question mark, the answer is no.
- notorandit 2y agoWhy
- Doxin 2y agoBecause if the title was at all likely it wouldn't've been formulated as a question but as a statement. It's not always correct of course but it's a better heuristic than it has any right to be.
- notorandit 2y agoI ask because i don't know for sure. You reply with no reasoning, for sure.
- Doxin 1y agobecause /bĭ-kôz′, -kŭz′/ conjunction For the reason that;
- notorandit 1y agoI am dumb and don't understand you. Or the other way around.
- overu589 2y ago[flagged]
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- znpy 2y agoDidn’t the linux kernel ban some russian folks over what’s being done in ukraine by the russian nation (ie Putin)? In a way yes, Linux is under the control of the is government… via a bunch of indirection layers.
- asdefghyk 2y agoAre the russian folks continuing to develop the kernel? Their own version ? ( Would seem to be a natural outcome of a ban ...)
- firesteelrain 2y agoEU sanctioned Russia too. Not just the US.
- notorandit 2y agoBy removing them from a first class open source project?
- firesteelrain 2y agoThe Linux kernel project itself has not issued a ban on contributions from Russian developers. But, some US-based tech companies and open-source foundations have taken steps to limit interactions with developers in sanctioned regions to remain compliant with US export control laws (such as OFAC regulations)
- notorandit 2y agoSo those Russian developers are banned from Linux. Aren't they? So you answer reads like "Yes, USA gov can control Linux".
- firesteelrain 1y agoNo they are not.
- strathmeyer 2y agoThey could be as effective as the old cryptography export controls, a pop up appears asking you not to download things to an illegal country.
- LinuxBender 2y agoIs Linux under the control of the USA gov? Probably not? I could think of ways to hide the controls but the most likely targets would be Linux forks and firmware that run in cell phones, cars, appliances, IoT's, etc... Those are more likely to be in the path of monitoring something interesting. Even in the case of cell phones, cars, etc, I would expect the control to be in firmware that one could tickle with JTAG over bluetooth, USB, WiFi, LoRa to take full control of the OS and bypass all security controls rendering encryption into a placebo or a CPU warmer. Why waste processing cycles on brute forcing when you can tell the application that the encryption key was successfully decrypted without ever even looking at the key. I guess a simpler way to say that is, why control Linux when there are always so many proprietary things are in the path that only have a handful of people controlling them, especially when one could replace said people whereas replacing all the Linux developers would be hard. Firmware that provides a CPU ring -4 shell can bypass absolutely every security control anyone could imagine in microseconds.
- notorandit 2y agoMost of current development runs on money that is directly or indirectly controlled by the USA gov.
- overu589 2y agoMaybe my answer was too indirect and “conspiracy” sounding. There are private contractor hound of war among us who are hygenxing any and every layer. These will sell to the government just as the Ruski mob will pimp it on the dark side. They are there and they are active. The USA government are incompetent opportunists doing their jobs mostly. Be vigilant.