This may interest some of you. I watched this video about current and upcoming changes to the linux Kernel.
It was by a seemingly homeless guy talking on youtube, actually one of the kernel developers who had wandered into the presentation room and seeing the podium decided to start talking to nobody in particular. I think they lured him into there with snacks but anyway. He knew a lot about kernel development.
Anyway several things that made it interesting was that he discussed the resolution of the scary kernel bug that came out a year ago as well as some changes that might affect all of us in the near future (near meaning within 5 years).
@Jumi has a thread (here about this terrible secret Intel feature which turned unsurprisingly into a security hole. The video spends some time discussing how that was fixed in Linux and how the fix is still ongoing.
This would interest developers:
Around minute 22 the presenter discusses a new change within the Kernel, an experimental virtual, turing complete computer within the kernel. They are calling it the BP Filter. Its job is to make the kernel more adaptable and smaller in size, and he discusses the security of it and what it will do. If implemented it will help smart phones get updated more often.
This might interest more people who are not developers:
Around minute 32 he discusses the problem with smart phones that they are very often running kernels that are never updated, never or rarely patched. He mentions some changes to Android requiring particular versions of kernels and ties this also with the idea of the new BPF which will bring android smart phones somewhere into the realm of security. (What they really aren't right now.)
He doesn't mention this but in fact at this moment the only cheap smart phones with any measure of security are brand new android phones and i-phones. For a phone to be secure it has to have an up to date kernel.
It was by a seemingly homeless guy talking on youtube, actually one of the kernel developers who had wandered into the presentation room and seeing the podium decided to start talking to nobody in particular. I think they lured him into there with snacks but anyway. He knew a lot about kernel development.
Anyway several things that made it interesting was that he discussed the resolution of the scary kernel bug that came out a year ago as well as some changes that might affect all of us in the near future (near meaning within 5 years).
@Jumi has a thread (here about this terrible secret Intel feature which turned unsurprisingly into a security hole. The video spends some time discussing how that was fixed in Linux and how the fix is still ongoing.
This would interest developers:
Around minute 22 the presenter discusses a new change within the Kernel, an experimental virtual, turing complete computer within the kernel. They are calling it the BP Filter. Its job is to make the kernel more adaptable and smaller in size, and he discusses the security of it and what it will do. If implemented it will help smart phones get updated more often.
This might interest more people who are not developers:
Around minute 32 he discusses the problem with smart phones that they are very often running kernels that are never updated, never or rarely patched. He mentions some changes to Android requiring particular versions of kernels and ties this also with the idea of the new BPF which will bring android smart phones somewhere into the realm of security. (What they really aren't right now.)
He doesn't mention this but in fact at this moment the only cheap smart phones with any measure of security are brand new android phones and i-phones. For a phone to be secure it has to have an up to date kernel.
