@monsieuricon Not really, too much overhead with maintaining/monitoring two social platforms :/

@_spmbt For my application I don't care about these as much, as I care about the benefits I described above.

Does anyone happen to have a buidroot definition for encfs package (for Raspberrypi)?

(In case you wonder why I like encfs? Because it's the only cross platform fs-based encryption (so perfect for using over Dropbox) for which there is also an iOS app available (Boxcryptor Classic).)

Introducing Qubes Admin API:

https://t.co/dBZheOMcC2

@bortzmeyer @rootkovska Check out this visual guide to Intel AMT evolution: https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/71/eb/mngstages.jpg
#HTTPD, #WebUI, #Kerberos, #TLS, #SOAP
What could go wrong?

Qubes Security Bulletin #31: Several Xen bugs, practical impact unclear (XSA 216-224):

https://t.co/l2ZjcCOGRf

Congrats to the Xen Team for finding most of the bugs and to Jann Horn of Google Project Zero for the remaining two!

@bcrypt Ok, so that's the GUI frontend, what about the backend(s)?

This picture is more terrifying than any terror attack. https://mastodon.social/media/Oab1Ov3sVToY2o6t-iA

Privilege escalation mind map. https://securitymastod.one/media/jxrKynu5v9qzOZY4yJY

Here's my quest for a project planning & tracking software:
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2823

Some features I want:
1. Decompose projects into sub-projects, & further down,
2. Balance incomes & expenses,
3. Dependencies which can span multiple projects,
4. Take declarative description of projects, tasks, deps, people's availability, various constrains, etc,
5. Calendar-time and resource limitations aware.

So far TaskJuggler seems best, anything better/similar?

@HalvarFlake "Defense is politics"?How come? What good is politics for defense if your code/system is vulnerable? Am I missing some context here?

Organizations all over the world should DEMAND from Intel ability to disable ME/AMT code. For good. There are likely many more bugs there.

Intel should provide means to disable all ME code which runs AFTER host CPU init is complete, i.e. all the UNTURSTED-input processing code.

1. Details by the original discoverer: https://www.embedi.com/files/white-papers/Silent-Bob-is-Silent.pdf
2. Independent rediscovery: https://t.co/l0rDyFlb0N
TLDR: trivial auth bug in the AMT web server...

What consequences should face those, who build web servers into our CPUs?

Remember Intel's been keen on mocking OSS for its lack of security & liability. Here's a fragment from the 2014 book by Intel ME architect:

@taoeffect What good is an OS that might not have any bugs, if it cannot protect against apps that might? E.g. can a buggy web browser or email client be effectively constrained if exploited?

A book about Mind, disguised as treatise on Formal Systems and Reasoning, camouflaged as work on Beauty, ultimately talking about Mind... ❤

Qubes Security Bulletin #30 for another critical Xen bug(s) in PV memory virtualization (XSA 213-214): https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qsb-030-2017.txt

The bugs were found by the same researcher who found the previous Xen bug (XSA 212): Jann Horn of Google P0, congrats!

Also, please read our commentary in the bulletin (linked above) about the general defense approaches we've been working on for Qubes 4.x.

@lattera Virtualization is not a magic solution, but it allows for significantly smaller interfaces, while at the same time to preserve compatibility with unmodified existing apps and drivers.

@DrWhax You use qubes.InputMouse service? Check the qrexec policy permissions?

HackerOne is running a bug bounty program for FlexiSpy, who specialise in spying on spouses https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/857314960099160067

Their justification: it's "just fixing vulns" https://twitter.com/senorarroz/status/857399800601337856

I don't buy this at all. By providing security testing services to a shady company, you lend legitimacy to them and their brand. I agree with Casey on this one https://twitter.com/caseyjohnellis/status/857362206626689025

Turned out that the phrase "Plan B" has a special connotation in the US (a day-after contraception pill), which I wasn't aware before . One of the US-based devs pointed this out and we're discussing how/if to change the option name and to what alternative (needless to say some users didn't like the "paranoid" name either):
https://t.co/0YBigxAH0V

I guess Qubes OS is getting ever more mainstream... :)