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Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
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Like, is the reason for this just the fact that they're Russian? If so, what exactly does this accomplish? Is it just
It accomplishes people moving out of Linux to open and anti-imperialist software.
Does anyone know of alternatives or if the people going out, and others, intend to fork it?
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Linux is used/developed by NATO, DoD, intel/Israel, Mossad, Google and other imperialist entities. There's most likely NSA/CIA/Mossad backdoors in the kernel. They're probably not collecting data from every Linux user, but I am sure that if they wanted to, they could gain access to a Linux/android box.
This is why you shouldn't do anything "sensitiv" on your computer. Use full disk encryption if you can, otherwise Tails booted off of a USB stick on public wifi.
What the imperialist entities have put in linux until now, or the vulnerabilities they found but didn't disclose to anyone, isn't even as much of a problem as what they will likely do now that they are removing the people most likely to be against allowing linux to be used against its users.
lolwut
Net/Free/OpenBSD are alternatives to Linux if that's what you mean
I haven't checked out the state of HURD in a while but possibly that as well
A couple months ago they released an aarch64 port of GNU Hurd and there seem to be at least a couple people working on it.