<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 6:56 PM, David Spencer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:baildon.research@googlemail.com" target="_blank">baildon.research@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra">
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br><div>And there's this:<br><a href="http://monolight.cc/2011/05/the-systemd-fallacy/" target="_blank">http://monolight.cc/2011/05/the-systemd-fallacy/</a><br>
</div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">systemd is all about control<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">FWIW... <br><br>If I wanted to pwn Linux boxes, the way I go about would be through initialization scripts. <br>
<br>But shell scripts are easy to read, and sys admins have a habit of poking around in them to debug issues or to tweak them for local needs. <br><br>C (unlike more obvious alternatives like Python) is much trickier to debug or decompile. System admins will in future need to approach corporates like RH. Given friends in these corporations, if they were to insert any special goodies then likely of being found out is slim indeed. <br>
<br>Good for the NSA. Good for revenues at the corps. All Free as in Freedom Fries...<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">But who cares about being pwn'd by Uncle Sam if your box boots 1.3 seconds faster...<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"> All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Robert<br></div></div></div>