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  • vaxry talked about LD_PRELOAD and I feel like that is a non-issue in this case.
    If an attacker has the ability to modify LD_PRELOAD of an application, they already an ability to modify its behaviour without depending upon what D-Bus may let it do.
    And if the attacker can change LD_PRELOAD for a process running as root, they might as well affect the target service directly rather than try doing something with the dbus daemon.


  • severe security flaws in D-Bus

    I searched for this and all I got was CVEs in the implementations.
    What are the flaws in the protocol that I don’t know of? If you can link it, I would love to read.

    I recently started interacting with code that had something to do with D-Bus and from what I saw, there were policy files, which are required to do anything with D-Bus endpoints provided by software. That’s essentially where I stopped, considering that to be the end-all for D-Bus security.

    What am I missing?












  • +1 for being the kind of guy that goes to a Windows problem thread and suggests installing Linux (I have done that just for fun), but for Rust.

    I am currently learning Rust in my freer time and found “Rust by Example” not as appealing.
    For context, I learnt C when I was a kid, following “Programming with C - Schaum Series” and loved how it started by giving an idea of the memory representation for all data structures the way it is abstracted (or not so much) in C. Later in Uni, I hated “Let us C” (even though it seemed to do a similar thing at a glance) and “Let us C++” and just learnt the languages on the go as required by courses and projects (also simply used a C++ reference book instead of a course styled one).

    Now I see “Rust by Example” and see some parts not having been explained in the beginning, for which I would have to open the link to a section, much further ahead (it probably is not a course styled thingy). I will end up learning it, given time, but is there some material available that has a similar approach to introducing programming with Rust as the Schaum Series one was for C?



  • I started that mainly because it felt weird that a comment I wrote, had a blue up, when I didn’t do it.
    Now I consider upvoting something as a way to emphasise the post/comment and not upvoting all my comments makes me show a point when I do upvote something that I wrote.
    It is really just for myself though, as a single upvote doesn’t really matter and others are not really seeing if I am the one that has upvoted it. You can call it a compulsion, I suppose.


  • Trans people are like witches that hand out curses that cause harm? I think your skepticism alarm should be going off.

    When I said that - some person told me that they actually work - I didn’t mean to say that I believed that part.

    Although I understand that I didn’t mention that multiple times in capital words (because I didn’t feel the need to), just because some of the poor trans people banded with some poor eunuchs to make a cult, of which I have a bad impression, that doesn’t mean, I have said impression for trans people all over the world.
    I was mostly just giving a list of past events, and they most definitely don’t tell my current thoughts, which I feel, the last 2 paragraphs should have explained well enough.


    I have once even gone pretty far into explaining how important I consider, not to have prejudice, which even got quite a bit of backlash and a ban from a community. So I am not going to put the effort into reiterating it over here.

    But of course, anyone may feel free to label me as anti-trans or whatever anyone may feel like and I may feel free to consider them an unreasonable person.

    Yeah, but on my instance, anything you post automatically has a +1 from yourself, which you must have removed.

    I didn’t downvote my post, I just un-upvoted it. It is possible to downvote it and that would give me a -1 from myself.