We saw a very sophisticated attack on Linux earlier this year with the XZ exploit. That stuff is terrifying and the sort of thing people should be worried about. SELinux is tame, by comparison.

Yeah that telecommunications part is working out great right now, huh? Well, i guess we just gotta keep fighting them.

Liberal democracies consistently underestimate the threat of fascism and do not take appropriate steps to stop it.

Paranoia (to a healthy degree) is good for information security professionals but drives literally everyone else crazy. I wish people would adopt more of that, though. Maybe we’d see fewer data breaches…

Love that one. “Evidence disagrees with our theories? Don’t worry, we have a theory for that! It’s actually the evidence that’s wrong.”

Generally, you shouldn’t brag that your theories are unfalsifiable.