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>Gentoo Linux developer Hanno Böck, who also writes for Golem and runs The Fuzzing Project as a software fuzzing initiative to find issues in software, presented today at FOSDEM 2017 over some Linux desktop security shortcomings and how Microsoft Windows 10 is arguably more secure out-of-the-box.

>Böck's presentation was motivated by recent posts on Chris Evans' security blog pertaining to how a Super Nintendo Emulator could exploit a modern Linux desktop. Check out that blog for a lot of interesting technical details on the exploit.

>Hanno Böck's presentation pointed out issues with GNOME's Tracker and KDE's Baloo auto-indexing files, including fresh downloads to computers. While Tracker has already implemented sandboxing via libseccomp, KDE/Baloo doesn't yet sandbox their file indexing work.

>Böck also criticizes Linux distributions for not generally making full use of Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) yet with it being "one of the strongest exploit mitigation techniques." Ubuntu had introduced support in 16.10, Fedora has offered ASLR / posiition-independent executables since Fedora 23, Debian is picking up support in Stretch, there isn't much work in the openSUSE space, and only hardened Gentoo enables these security features. Windows meanwhile had ASLR support in Vista and that modern Windows desktops already use "next-level mitigations" for fending off attack vectors on the desktop.

http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Desktop-Win10-Security

>Gentoo developer showcases how the linux desktop is pretty insecure;
>Shows how the most trustworthy distros that have started working on these issues are Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora, while suse, gentoo and arch are exploitable as fuck, unlike Windows, which has had this shit taken care of since VISTA;
>Also, gstreamer is an insecure POS, and indexing coding is garbage, again, UNLIKE WINDOWS;
>And, unlike your mothers, windows fags use protection, in one form or another;

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