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One thing I have yet to see discussed about systemd and the "unified package manager" proposed by Poettering is the stated objective [among others] of tivoisation of linux:
We want our images to be trustable (i.e. signed). In fact we want a fully trustable OS, with images that can be verified by a full trust chain from the firmware (EFI SecureBoot!), through the boot loader, through the kernel, and initrd. Cryptographically secure verification of the code we execute is relevant on the desktop (like ChromeOS does), but also for apps, for embedded devices and even on servers (in a post-Snowden world, in particular).
Am I the only one who is scared of this "tivoisation" by design? If this ever makes it to arm devices, say goodbye to DD-WRT, OpenWRT, Tomato, etc. And that will be just the beginning. Be ready for all your devices becoming appliances, non-customizable and to be thrown out as soon as they become obsolete by design. Being allowed to only run signed code will probably be good for redhat, but will it be good for the user?
Strange that a few years ago "trusted computing" was stopped, and now it seems almost inevitable even in Linux.
(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Tuesday September 16 2014, @09:25AM
I have a growing anti-Pottering sentiment, and was going to show some charts to my friends, but I can't find any data on how much of Red Hat's revenue comes from US Military. And I mean "data". Not something that someone has said sometime. Couldn't find it anywhere, tho. Do you have some links?
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