Consistent with its push to force the new “Passwords” app on their users, Apple has decided to block you from adding new “secure notes” to your keychain starting with macOS Sequoia. Which just adds one more annoyance to the ever growing list with recent macOS releases. If you want to add secure notes anyway, you can do it on the…
Category: Security
zigbee2mqtt external converters on Arch Linux
zigbee2mqtt usually just works fine. However, in its latest version 2.x, the way external converters get loaded has changed fundamentally. To begin with, external converters can now be loaded by sending their code via MQTT, which to me looks like adding some remote eval capability just for the fun of it. In order to accomplish this, zigbee2mqtt creates a new…
What is wrong with Rust packaging on EL9?
Rust’s rich type system and ownership model guarantee memory-safety and thread-safety https://www.rust-lang.org/ Looks like Rust’s rich packaging guarantees anything… but security. Why would one want to have a Linux package for every little library?Who is going to audit this?