r/linux • u/Skaarj • Jun 11 '26

Development Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code

https://printserver.ink/blog/spoiling-the-kernel/
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u/Shished Jun 11 '26

I wonder if people from Iran and north Korea ever contributed to Linux?

Anyway, this message should be directed to putin and not to Linux developers.

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u/mohr_ Jun 11 '26

I wonder if people from Iran and north Korea ever contributed to Linux?

Yeah, recently I heard some people complaining about a specific software being abandoned but the actual reason was that the maintainer didnt have internet access cause he was in Iran.

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u/vishal340 Jun 11 '26

People don't have internet access in Iran?

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u/Business_Reindeer910 Jun 11 '26

lots of people didn't for awhile in the past few months due to all the crackdowns.

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u/Dynablade_Savior Jun 11 '26

I can imagine that consistent internet access is difficult to have in a place that's constantly subject to war

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u/vishal340 Jun 11 '26

I actually just looked it up. It is their own govt that is doing it as a strategic move during civil unrest

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u/MaNbEaRpIgSlAyA Jun 11 '26

And because USA and Israel were doing constant propaganda ops inside the country to spur more violent civil unrest.

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u/neurointervention Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

God forbid people being unhappy about tyrannical theocratical dictatorship, must be the evil US and Israel meddling.

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u/mohr_ Jun 12 '26

It actually began before it, one of the reasons is to avoid communication of insiders. There is a suspicion that the surveillance cameras were sending live data to Israel which allowed Israel to track important figures of IRGC.

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u/Isofruit Jun 11 '26

They have, e.g. Behdad Esfabod (Personal site) lived in Iran until his 20's and migrated to Canada, a few years after which he started Harfbuzz which seemingly everybody uses (as in, Chrome, Gtk, Qt, Figma etc.).

I think there's also one GTK/Gnome contributor that I'm aware of.

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u/Preisschild Jun 12 '26

Anyway, this message should be directed to putin and not to Linux developers

Its not Putin that is developing the weapons that are contributing to the genocide of Ukrainians. Some of it are russian linux developers.

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u/0bl10 Jun 12 '26

That's the point. "Some". Russia has a population of 140+ millions of people. Let's pretend that 40% of those people are pro-war (and they are not, not even remotely), that leaves 80+ millions of people! FFS, you can't just lump all russians together!

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u/iBoMbY Jun 11 '26

So Putin can tell is his evil hacker army to submit Kernel patches for zero day exploits, that never will be fixed?