I am Jake Winters, also known by my pseudonym "Inference", a security
- researcher based in United Kingdom.
- I am the founder, lead developer, and administrator, of Inferencium.
+ researcher based in United Kingdom.
+ I am the founder, lead developer, and administrator, of Inferencium.
All opinions are my own, and are not necessarily shared with projects or people
I am affiliated with.
I write about my research and experience in cybersecurity and also physical
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about other aspects of my life.
I am an open source advocate for the preservation and modifiability of source
code. I believe source code should be considered human knowledge as much as past
- knowledge and teachings were; it is how modern humanity survives and runs.
+ knowledge and teachings were; it is how modern humanity survives and runs.
Source code being modifiable allows it to be adapted for use by anyone, whether
to add features, harden it for increased security and/or privacy, or provide
- accessibility for disabled users.
+ accessibility for disabled users.
I am also a modular design advocate for the ability to securely and robustly
make changes to hardware and software without the entire system being
affected.
I run multiple XMPP channels; a directory of channels can be found on the
- directory
+ directory
webpage.
It's just Linux. GNU is completely unrelated to Linux, which is a
kernel developed by Linus Torvalds. Linux can be used entirely without
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specified in the SPDX license identifier), and requiring
the original copyright notice to be kept in order to
attribute the original creator of the licensed
- content.
+ content.
Due to the restrictive and invasive nature of this
license, it is avoided unless such restrictions would be
beneficial to my code; whenever this is the case, the
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hardware-acceleration, and ChaCha20-Poly1305 for devices without
AES hardware-acceleration, with AES-128-GCM as a fallback
(AES-128-GCM is mandated for TLS 1.3 by
- IETF RFC8446 section 9.1)
+ IETF RFC8446 section 9.1)
Referrer headers disabled to prevent knowing where a user
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Type |
Hardware |
Description |
- Source model
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| Smartphone |
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Google Pixel
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minimum of 3 years from launch.
Pixel 6-series, Pixel 7-series, Pixel
Fold, and Pixel Tablet, are supported for a
- minimum of 5 years from launch.
+ minimum of 5 years from launch.
Pixel 8-series is supported for a
minimum of 7 years from launch,
putting it on the same support level as
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| Type |
Software |
Description |
- Source model
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| Operating system |
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Gentoo Linux
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and GrapheneOS'
hardened_malloc
memory allocator.
- You can find my Gentoo Linux configurations in my
+ You can find my Gentoo Linux configurations in my
configuration respository.
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- Open-source
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(GPL-2.0-only)
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| Web browser |
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Chromium
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memory hardening, and
control-flow integrity (CFI). |
- Open-source
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(BSD-3-Clause)
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Description |
- Source model
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GrapheneOS
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which provides extensive documentation.
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(MIT)
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| Web browser |
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Vanadium
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patch-set, can be found in its
official repository. |
- Open-source
+ Open-source
(GPL-2.0-only)
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| Messenger |
- 
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Molly
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- Open-source
+ Open-source
(GPL-3.0-only)
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Conversations
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client and has great usability.
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- Open-source
+ Open-source
(GPL-3.0-only)
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Blog - #0
FOSS is Working Against Itself
Posted: 2022-01-27 (UTC+00:00)
Updated: 2023-10-31 (UTC+00:00)
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The world has become a dangerous, privacy invading, human rights stripping,
totalitarian place; in order to combat this, people are joining a growing, and
dangerous, trend, which I will refer to in this post as the "Free and Open
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Blog - #1
systemd Insecurity
Posted: 2022-01-29 (UTC+00:00)
Updated: 2023-10-31 (UTC+00:00)
- "Yes, as you found out "0day" is not a valid username. I wonder
+ "Yes, as you found out "0day" is not a valid username. I wonder
which tool permitted you to create it in the first place. Note that not
permitting numeric first characters is done on purpose: to avoid ambiguities
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- systemd will validate all configuration data you drop at it, making it hard to
+ between numeric UID and textual user names.
+ systemd will validate all configuration data you drop at it, making it hard to
generate invalid configuration. Hence, yes, it's a feature that we don't permit
invalid user names, and I'd consider it a limitation of xinetd that it doesn't
- refuse an invalid username.
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- So, yeah, I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here. I understand
- this is annoying, but still: the username is clearly not valid."
+ refuse an invalid username.
+ So, yeah, I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here. I understand
+ this is annoying, but still: the username is clearly not valid."
- Lennart Poettering, systemd lead developer
My thoughts: systemd was the thing that allowed root access just because a
username started with a number, then Poettering blamed the user.
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Blog - #3
The Chromium Monopoly
Posted: 2022-12-20 (UTC+00:00)
Updated: 2023-11-11 (UTC+00:00)
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Topic: Any, excluding
NSFW.
Multimedia prohibited unless
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Inferencium moderation channel.
Topic: Moderation of all XMPP
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