Collaborate Disseminate
Someone took control of a Linux unofficial community website and replaced its regular content with a NSFW meme, a dox of a transgender open source developer, and anti-diversity messages. Continue reading Someone Defaced Linux.org Website With ‘Goatse’ And Anti-Diversity Tirade
When you think about what a social engineer does, and how influence and manipulation are used by good and bad SEs, it is easy think that to be an SE you need to have an evil personality or even have sociopathic tendencies. Is that true, are all social … Continue reading Are All Social Engineers Bad?
After Linux adopted a new Code of Conduct, a small group of programmers threatened to rescind their code from the project. Lead Linux developers say the threat is “hollow.” Continue reading The Culture War Comes to Linux
Linux started as a student project in the 1990s, the creation of Linus Torvalds. He has attained celebrity status while steering his creation through the decades, but along the way he has also attracted a different reputation within the Linux and software community. He is famous for his outbursts and rants, some of which become rather personal, and it is not difficult at all to find kernel developers or would-be kernel developers who have turned their backs on the project as a result.
It’s very refreshing indeed then to read an update from [Linus] as part of his regular communications, …read more
Attendees at Hackers on Planet Earth don’t think the conference is doing enough to address issues of harassment and intimidation from “bad faith attendees.” Continue reading What Went Wrong at the HOPE Hacking Conference?
Microsoft has banned nudity, swearing and other unsavoury behaviors in Skype, Xbox, email, and Office 365 docs. Continue reading Stop swearing on Skype! And don’t even think about sending that nude selfie…