I am afraid that FOSS developers will have to go into hiding soon

There is a clever but deceitful slogan out there: with great power comes great responsibility. FOSS developers butchered and mutilated it, in their minds, and they deem themselves cerberae of the universe, in a sense that they put security over usability.

This manifest itself in perpetual breaking changes in FOSS that rushes to remove obsolete encryption cyphers, algorithms, methods, etc. as soon as someone invisible somewhere pronounces them obsolete/compromised/bad.

Meanwhile, not due to the presence of obsolete cyphers but due to sheer stupidity of human beings, hundreds of million of PII records get stolen by "hackers", wink-wink, every year.

It is about humans, stupid, not about software! If humans are stupid, which they are, then vulnerabilities much wider than that of offered by obsolete cyphers will always exist. But no, FOSS "community" does not care of reason. All they care of is staying on the bleeding edge.

And so they rip out old cyphers and inevitably break connections to anything other than bleeding edge Windows 11 or whatnot. They do not give a fuck that there are previous LTS operating systems and hardware devices out there that need the old, obsolete cyphers.

Dudes, soon you will not be able to go outside because people with box cutters will be waiting to slash you across your faces.

Posted by: LinuxLies at 10:48 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
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