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    8 months ago

    Meta hasn’t asked for consent in advance. Instead, the company claims to have a ‘legitimate interest’ outweighing the fundamental right to privacy

    I’m going to fly to Zuckerberg’s lair on Kauai, break into his house and burglarize the shit out of the place.

    It’s not legal you say? Well, I have a legitimate interest in being as filthy rich as Zuckerberg to enjoy the good life too. So I’ve decided the law doesn’t apply to me either.





  • Exactly. This is a malicious PAM module. Of course something as sensitive as PAM running as root can do any nasty thing it wants.

    But the trick is, someone has to convince the target to go root and install it. And I guarantee you, of all the Linux users out there, only a teeny tiny fracition knows what PAM even is, and those who know aren’t likely to install any old PAM module willy-nilly. Which leaves an unlikely supply chain attack - unlikely because, just like expert users who diddle with PAM, any distro that supplies PAM modules are going to be super-careful what they onboard. Because ya know… PAM. It’s like super-sensitve.

    So yeah, I’m not very worried.