How to panic a current grsecurity kernel as any user (opens in new tab)

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41 pointshsileng9y ago16 comments

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Responding to criticism of a patch by blocking a user feels just...childish. Doubling down on that childishness by first blocking anyone on twitter who likes/faves that tweet, and then by switching your twitter account to protected feels even more childish. The Grsecurity team needs to calm down here, because they aren't giving an appearance of a professional team with exchanges like this.

tptacek9y ago

I promise you that "the grsecurity team" does not care whether they have the "appearance of a professional team".

smegel9y ago

What do they care about?

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unimpressive9y ago

".@grsecurity Did you seriously just IP block me on your site? Please tell me this is a coincidence and you're not a 5yo throwing a tantrum."

Wow.

unlinker9y ago

It's not like his attitude was more mature. https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/724749571495075840

Sanddancer9y ago

Yes, this was a petty pissing match. However, responding to criticism by IP blocking him, and then blocking anyone on twitter who faves/retweets it is just ridiculous.

kalefranz9y ago

How not to run an open source project.

tptacek9y ago

Or, what, someone's going to come up with a better patch than grsecurity?

mkonecny9y ago

How do you obtain someone's IP address over Twitter? This can't be real.

Sanddancer9y ago

He posted to the support forums:

https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4342

tacticus9y ago

Don't forget the comment after the newer patch

"New test patch up with improved protection against irrelevant infosec anklebiters"

from their now protected twitter account.

Thaxll9y ago

When you look at his first tweet he seems pretty immature.

"Starting to think that the @grsecurity kernel is not suitable for prod. First SIZE_OVERFLOW false +s, now panic due to a bug they introduced"

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/724740708104474626

dgellow9y ago

Could you elaborate? It doesn't seem immature to me. From what I can see he has good reasons to think that the grsec kenrnel is not something you want to use in production.

ondeodiff9y ago

First, I thought it was funny. Second, WTF? GRsecurity totally reacted the opposite

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Sanddancer9y ago

tptacek9y ago

I promise you that "the grsecurity team" does not care whether they have the "appearance of a professional team".

smegel9y ago

What do they care about?

2 more replies

unimpressive9y ago

".@grsecurity Did you seriously just IP block me on your site? Please tell me this is a coincidence and you're not a 5yo throwing a tantrum."

Wow.

unlinker9y ago

It's not like his attitude was more mature. https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/724749571495075840

Sanddancer9y ago

Yes, this was a petty pissing match. However, responding to criticism by IP blocking him, and then blocking anyone on twitter who faves/retweets it is just ridiculous.

kalefranz9y ago

How not to run an open source project.

tptacek9y ago

Or, what, someone's going to come up with a better patch than grsecurity?

mkonecny9y ago

How do you obtain someone's IP address over Twitter? This can't be real.

Sanddancer9y ago

He posted to the support forums:

https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4342

tacticus9y ago

Don't forget the comment after the newer patch

"New test patch up with improved protection against irrelevant infosec anklebiters"

from their now protected twitter account.

Thaxll9y ago

When you look at his first tweet he seems pretty immature.

"Starting to think that the @grsecurity kernel is not suitable for prod. First SIZE_OVERFLOW false +s, now panic due to a bug they introduced"

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/724740708104474626

dgellow9y ago

Could you elaborate? It doesn't seem immature to me. From what I can see he has good reasons to think that the grsec kenrnel is not something you want to use in production.

ondeodiff9y ago

First, I thought it was funny. Second, WTF? GRsecurity totally reacted the opposite

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