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Passwords are particularly problematic for programmers. You're not supposed to store them without encrypting them, and you're not supposed to reveal what's been typed when your user enters one. This became particularly important to me when I decided I wanted to boost security on my laptop. I encrypt my home directory—but once I log in, any password stored as plain text in a configuration file is potentially exposed to prying eyes.

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Allow me a bit of introspection. I've been working in the software engineering field for 31 years. During those 31 years, I've modified a lot of legacy software.

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This US Independence Day a revised set of patches were mailed out providing support for Rust as a secondary programming language within the Linux kernel for areas where increased security and memory safety are of utmost importance. The set of 17 patches plumb the Linux kernel with initial support, an example driver, and in total amount to more than 33k lines of new code in its early form...

Linux 5.14 is ready to begin supporting some new sound hardware while some recently proposed USB audio latency improvements were rejected for now...

How to install Adobe Photoshop CS6 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux  H2S Media

As part of our various Q2'21 and H1'21 Linux/open-source recaps, here is a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source news so far this calendar year...

AMD's Linux Strides In H1'21 From FreeSync HDMI To PyTorch ROCm  Phoronix

The thermal subsystem updates for the Linux 5.14 kernel include more work on Intel's int340x driver that is used by newer Intel laptops for dealing with their varying thermal control capabilities and exposing more thermal information to user-space for use by Intel's Thermal Daemon (Thermald). This cycle the work includes a new driver that will be used by next-gen Alder Lake SoCs...

Voice Interoperability Movement Gathers Momentum, Thanks To Linux Foundation  Analytics India Magazine

Voice Interoperability Movement Gathers Momentum, Thanks To Linux Foundation  Analytics India Magazine

GNU Binutils 2.37 has been branched and the release process initiated for these low-level GNU components likely seeing their v2.37 release later this month...

Among the many new features that were sent in so far this week for the Linux 5.14 merge window was the long in-development work on "core scheduling" to reduce the Hyper Threading information leakage risks from side channels and help ensuring deterministic performance on such HT/SMT systems by controlling the resources that can run on a sibling thread. As a follow-up to that article from a few days ago, core scheduling will now be disabled by default...

Linux Will Keep Core Scheduling Disabled By Default  Phoronix

The Linux kernel's Distributed Lock Manager as a general purpose DLM for kernel and user-space applications with cluster computing systems is seeing a useful reliability improvement with Linux 5.14...

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Hacked via linux - Virus, Trojan, Spyware, and Malware Removal Help  BleepingComputer

The EXT4 file-system updates have been sent in for the ongoing Linux 5.14 merge window...

Linux 5.14 With EXT4 Adds Interface To Help Prevent Information Leakage From The Journal  Phoronix

How to Download and Install Signal Desktop on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

WiFiWart Linux Pentesting Device Gets First PCBs  Hackaday