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siliconunityesterday at 6:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

as much as I'm all for the freedom of knownledge, given the sorry state of the world, releasing these tools to imbecils is not peak foresight.. mcafee for linux next ha../s


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void-staryesterday at 8:26 PM

Public Linux rootkits have been around a very very long time. Nothing new here in that regard. Also Linux AV has been around almost as long…

This effort is more useful to up and coming defenders and security researchers than attackers by far.

rurbantoday at 5:21 AM

Most such rootkits source code is online and easy to find. So that rootkit finders get better.