Another Linux lie: Linux is stable and being developed by competent developers

I have already blogged about full-on backdooring of Linux via systemd and hijacking of its security by polkitd. Turns out that the developer of the latter is also an inconsidering troll and disrespectful fascist, like the majority of so-called "open source community" is.

Read this excellent research by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard: The PolicyKit service. It is a damning guilty verdict to Linux gestapo uberschturmgruppenfuhrer David Zeuthen from... tada!.. RedHat (surprise! Who wudda thunk that RedHat employs inept trolls?). In short, PolkitD pins CPUs around the globe because the developer considered it a good idea. Why did I put a period just before this sentence? Because this is it: David Zeuthen thought it was a good idea to keep incessantly polling directories that polkitd has no permissions to, in the assumption that someone might notice that their CPU is pinned and start doing research.

For posterity:

Sometimes /usr/local/share/polkit-1/rules.d/ is installed owned by the superuser
with rwx------ permissions, and so not accessible to the unprivileged user.
Sometimes /usr/local/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/ is installed owned by the superuser
with rwx------ permissions, and so not accessible to the unprivileged user.
Sometimes /usr/local/etc/polkit-1/ is installed owned by the superuser
with rwxr-x--- permissions, and so not accessible to the unprivileged user.
Sometimes the ConsoleKit service is simply not running.

The polkitd program's failure mode in such scenarios is to keep trying,
incessantly, to access these, every few seconds. This is visible as
the dæmon constantly consuming (some) CPU time and continually appearing
in the listings of top -I and suchlike. 

How about a message? But no pip squeak from commandante Zeuthen. He did not bother to publicize his exploits, and millions of Linux users around the globe keep paying inflated electricity bills and suffer degraded performance on their systems because... tada!.. many distro maintainers and software packagers have no idea of polkitd's permission requirements.

Fuck you, David! I hope that you rot in hell soon.

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