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Subject: Fuck Security. Check this Program.
From: Lester Thorpe
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From: lt@gnu.rocks (Lester Thorpe)
Subject: Fuck Security. Check this Program.
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The Linux distros have gone bat-shit crazy with their security garbage.
For example, all distros now are built with PIE, or Position Independent
Executables, and RELRO (Relocation Read-Only).

This cuts performance considerably especially when heaped upon all the
security junk.

The distros have the chicken-little "the sky is falling" philosophy.

What insane idiocy.

To check what kind of security is crippling your software one can use
the "checksec" utility:

https://github.com/slimm609/checksec.sh

Here are the results from a check of MY pan executable:

checksec --file=/usr/local/bin/pan

RELRO STACK CANARY NX PIE RPATH RUNPATH Symbols FORTIFY Fortified Fortifiable FILE
No RELRO No canary found NX enabled No PIE No RPATH No RUNPATH No Symbols No 0 12 /usr/local/bin/pan

Now that's how it's supposed to be! I say "Fuck You!" to that
security nonsense.

There is no RELRO, no canary (i.e. stack protection), no PIE, and no for
every-fucking-thing else.

The exception is "NX," but this is purely a hardware feature in the
BIOS.

Compare this your distro "hardened" junk.

The distros have gone insane with their "the sky is falling"
philosophy.

--
Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.

Subject	Author
Fuck Security. Check this Program.	Lester Thorpe