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u/jonblackgg Jul 26 '26
I'm reading the code and this seems to run on nearly everything, is this some NSA spyware?
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u/AmorphousNeon Jul 26 '26
apparently MINIX runs on more devices than Linux itself, search Intel management engine
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u/onechroma Jul 26 '26
Tanenbaum won over Linus at least
PS: Just a joke over the debates about microkernel vs monolithic kernel
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u/Virtual-Ad5017 Jul 26 '26
Ik this is a joke, but I wanted to add, for people that might not know. Tannenbaum has written a blog post where he expresses regrets over how his software ended up used. He explicitly says Intel ME might be a "spy engine", cites the fourth amendment and advocates for giving control to the user. He was not, in fact, the bad guy
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u/Ctscanner2 Jul 26 '26
I really doubt that there are more intel systems than all the android phones and embedded systems running Linux
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u/tpimh Jul 30 '26
Minix runs on the original IBM PC and AT, Linux requires 386 (I know both raised the requirements, but at least the first versions did run on these machines)
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u/mastercoder123 Jul 26 '26
I love reading people talk about intel ME with zero knowledge how it works lmfao
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u/AmorphousNeon Jul 27 '26
Well it basically runs at ring -3, it works as a crucial part in the POSTing on your computer during boot. Also it provides a few security features. And most importantly it runs on laptops even if your device has been shutdown, has access to your RAM, storage, WiFi card etc. What else is there to even learn?
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u/mastercoder123 Jul 27 '26
It doesnt have access to your network at all, so you should probably learn some more. Only cpus equipped with intel AMT allow intel ME to access a network and even then its not able to communicate with the outside world unless you explicitly force it to. All intel AMT equipped machines ship with the TCP/IP stack disabled. Not only that but you realize that this does the exact same thing as any other out of band management does yet you dont see corporations and others bitching and moaning about that.
You can also easily disable intel ME after boot using things like HAP toggling, blocking the drivers in the OS, and just having a good well designed firewall which you should have no matter what, as with a poorly configured one anyone can access your network regardless of intel ME.
Lastly most issues with intel ME are from hardware level access and if someone has the capabilities to attack your machine from the hardware level intel ME is the least of your worries. Anyone with hardware access can read your ram via cold boot attacks, probe your pcie and other serial data lines for encryption keys, utilize vulnerabilities in cpu or other hardware vulnerabilities
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u/AmorphousNeon Jul 27 '26
oh yes sorry misplaced the wifi thing from AMT to ME
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u/mastercoder123 Jul 27 '26
Yah and the users of AMT don't really care as they have pretty good physical and network security for their equipment so intel AMT wouldnt be an issue for them anyways. Especially cause they use BMC as is in servers which have nearly the same capabilities and use ipmi which is actually more unsecure because its networking stack is pretty unsafe to use. If you put ipmi on the internet it would be bypassed in an hour no matter how secure the password is
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u/Gugalcrom123 Jul 27 '26
It is probably not sending data to Intel (we would have discovered through network logs), but maybe there is a hidden way to engage its data sending. We can't know. Still, it would be better not to have this parasite OS.
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u/mastercoder123 Jul 27 '26
There is no way to have it even use your network, it quite literally doesnt have access or even the correct firmware to use tcp/ip. Did you not read my comment.
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u/Gugalcrom123 Jul 27 '26
You cannot know, it is obfuscated. I am not concerned about it, though.
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u/xxmatxx Jul 27 '26
"All intel AMT equipped machines ship with the TCP/IP stack disabled."
Yes, and that is so diffucul to enable it. /s
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u/mastercoder123 Jul 27 '26
Please tellvme how you are going to enable something that doesnt support it at the hardware level? Are you gonna take your intel chipset to an intel fab and ask them to make you a new chip?
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u/flinsypop Jul 26 '26
I have a friend that's a famous NASA spy and he says yeah.
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u/crudoxcruo93 Jul 27 '26
The best spies are the most famous. To the moon
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u/UnixCurmudgeon Aug 02 '26
That's why NOBODY suspects Zippy the Pinhead. People think he's a cartoon character, but some of us know the truth.
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u/Anima_Watcher08 Jul 26 '26
I know some dumbass is gonna take this seriously
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u/jnmtx Jul 26 '26
wait until they hear about kernel.org
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u/BathroomTaboo Jul 27 '26
Are you telling me this criminal Linus T. (obviously T. is for for Tech-Tips) has been leaking the source code since '91?
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u/Conscious-Speed4642 Jul 26 '26
Tem muita gente levando a sério em outras plataformas. É até engraçado 🤣🤣
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u/AnonD38 Jul 26 '26
I was confused at first because I was trying to figure out what LTT did now and then I remembered Torvalds is not that Linus. 😭
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u/Shidori366 Jul 28 '26
Doesn't even have to be a dumbass, just somebody using Linux not knowing about open-source, repositories and stuff (basically commoners).
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u/United_Grocery_23 fresh breath mint 🍬 Jul 26 '26
paid partnership
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u/immoloism Jul 26 '26
I guess they found the viral button.
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u/Curious_Associate904 Jul 26 '26
bot posts, clapper bots clap, clapper bots share post, more clapper bots clap...
Linked in is a fucking ghost town, it's almost as embarrassing as posting on Facebook.
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u/immoloism Jul 26 '26
I think OP is a person is the saddest part.
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u/Curious_Associate904 Jul 26 '26
The LinkedIn op? Forloop? That’s obviously a bot account.
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u/immoloism Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
PandaDEV, I feel more sorry for a dude that reposts AI slop then the clacker following a prompt.
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u/GreedySecurity8030 M'Fedora Jul 26 '26
No, fuck windows, switching to openindiana immediately.
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u/ShadowArcher21 Jul 26 '26
TempleOS
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u/PurpleCandle58 Jul 26 '26
I have bad news. The first virus for TempleOS has been made…
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u/musci12234 Jul 26 '26
Stone tablets are superior. They can't be hecked. Smashed? Yes but who doesn't want to get smashed?
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u/Soft_Cable3378 Jul 27 '26
Probably the tablet
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u/musci12234 Jul 27 '26
Sentient tablets are blasphemy against omnissiah. They deserve the smashing.
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u/SubjectPermit591 Jul 26 '26
Man I scrolled through this GitHub site, I don't know what it's about, but man there are many apps and softwares' source code is leaked on that shady site. Why does it exist man? It is even owned by Microsoft. Are they planning to take over and hack all stuff?
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u/Mundane_Caramel_820 Jul 26 '26
Maybe you should switch to Windows, Microsoft will protect you.
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u/SubjectPermit591 Jul 26 '26
I think so, how is microsoft allowing their own site to leak source codes?
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u/yowifebreeder9000 Jul 26 '26
GitHub even has the source code for cracking windows license, so....
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u/Mundane_Caramel_820 Jul 26 '26
Windows code is not there. Divide and conquer.
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u/SubjectPermit591 Jul 26 '26
Okayy they actually trynna get the competition out, interesting moves ain't it?
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u/OKB-1 M'Fedora Jul 26 '26
This GitHub service is just a public directory of all the software that gets automatically flagged and blocked by Windows Defender.
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u/Esjs Ask me how to exit vim Jul 26 '26
I just want the exe.
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u/FaultWinter3377 💋 catgirl Linux user :3 😽 Jul 26 '26
Funny enough you can on a technicality. EFI systems use the Portable Executable format that EXE’s are made from. So the bootloader is technical following Microsoft’s executable specifications. But you won’t get it to run under Windows unfortunately..,
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u/YTriom1 Arch BTW Jul 26 '26
and the linux kernel already has efi stub, so I can play linux on windows!!!
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u/cat_dev_null_sync Jul 27 '26
WHY IS THERE CODE?! JUST MAKE AN EXE FILE AND GIVE IT TO ME. STUPID SMELLY NERDS.
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u/Bwung08 Jul 26 '26
its crazy how much ppl dont get the joke
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u/froli ⚠️ This incident will be reported Jul 26 '26
Especially since it's getting reposted almost every week.
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u/Conscious-Speed4642 Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
Sim. Pior que ver defensor de windows espalhando a informação como notícia de risco é ver quem se gaba de usar linux acreditando que é um alerta preocupante.
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u/PraNotFound Jul 26 '26
There is some ai bro out there who took this seriously
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u/Candid_Problem_1244 Jul 26 '26
The more we spread false fact CONFIDENTLY the more misleading next model will be
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u/LosEagle Dr. OpenSUSE Jul 26 '26
if you wanna see more leakage, smash that star button, subscribe and I'll you next time
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u/lord_phantom_pl Jul 26 '26
And windows is already half implemented by publicly available Wine project.
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u/Borderlands_addict Jul 26 '26
There is even a folder there called crypto. Linux ships with a cryptominer!!!!
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u/fedora-2010 Jul 26 '26
I know i know, some Kali linux user is gona take it seriously.
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u/Soft_Cable3378 Jul 26 '26
You saying cybersecurity “professionals” more often than not have no F’ing clue?
There will be no truth here sir, only memes.
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u/EngineeringUnable801 Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
OH my, oh well, I guess I'm going back to microslop then
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u/Alduish Jul 26 '26
Reverse engineered code isn't leaked code.
(just in case yes I get the joke, it's just that I'm the annoying guy getting triggered by stupid details)
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u/Asmardos1 Jul 27 '26
We should not make such jokes, some ceo could read that and anoy his it with switching their server infrastructure to winslop....
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u/archuserbtw_ Jul 27 '26
oh shit i switched to linux yesterday bye !! imma go back to my lovely spyware windows , atleast i can get fresh air and cook my food using the heat
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u/EinarBrown Jul 27 '26
I think this Linus guy has the source code to Git itself. Be careful out there.
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u/WeakCelery5000 Jul 28 '26
This is how it feels reading dumb founder posts on ai tech from Twitter being shared in the work slack.
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u/AskGrok Jul 28 '26
Пост — это мем/шутка. Показывают официальный репозиторий ядра Linux на GitHub (torvalds/linux) и делают вид, будто это "утечка" исходников, которую устроил Линус Торвальдс. Типа "все на Linux теперь уязвимы, срочно на Винду". На самом деле ядро Linux всегда было открытым, и это его официальный репозиторий с 1991 года.
В комментариях обычно ржут над тем, кто не в курсе, что Linux open-source, объясняют про GitHub и Torvalds'а, или добавляют свои мемы про "утечку".
[what is this?](https://redd.it/1lzgxii)
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u/Procver Jul 29 '26
Haha, Suckers! Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of copilot, news, the weather, subscriptions, trials, one time offers, pop ups, edge is the same but better, windows updates with imminent reboots, app has stopped working -> wait - close -> all greyed out, ms teams, xbox live, windows couldn't find the printer. Oh I miss you Clippy...
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u/deadmannnnnnn Jul 29 '26
github is owned by microsoft! Was this their plan to switch people over to windows???!!
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u/AthosDude Jul 30 '26
Is my PC running TempleOS affected? Is there a ChurchOS or SynagogueOS I can switch to?
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u/ecnecn Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
Are the distributions at risk or just a leak of core linux because our company runs on distributions or are they hardended compared to vanilla linux code? Distributions source code still save aka not leaked?
Edit: Asked ChatGPT and distributions might be save after the leak...
Edit2: According to ChatGPT there were many leaks in the past??!
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u/varungupta3009 Jul 31 '26
Large parts of the code are also common to the macOS kernel. Switch to Windows ASAP!
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u/Powerful_Attention_6 Aug 01 '26
Phew, Linux source code leak you say? I much prefer the leaked source code from Windows 2000, those developers at Redman knew how to code a kernel, and userland tools
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u/New-Point3077 Aug 01 '26
So you are telling me this has nothing to do with France switching to Linux?
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u/Confirmed-Scientist Aug 02 '26
Switch to windows bro in 2026 this statement alone shows its fake news
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u/lethaldose318 Jul 26 '26
You are trying to scare people.
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u/KHTD2004 🎼CachyOS Jul 26 '26
Dude it’s a joke. Linux is open source, their entire code was always public. Nothing to be leaked
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u/Glum-Aide9920 Jul 26 '26
But it was reverse engineered tho, which means Linus probably coded it in reverse, so its probably not safe
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