The NSA Is Looking at Systemd's KDBUS

Michael Larabel ends this article with... "All in all, this really shouldn't be worrisome or news worthy, unless you're wearing a tin hat."

I agree with the article that there does not seem to be any need to worry about this very specific activity, but I would like to remind Michael that, thanks to Edward Snowden, we now know that the tin-hatters were largely correct. So can we all agree that we should stop gaslighting people who are concerned about NSA activities?

Best i can tell from the exchange, this guy is from the defensive half of the NSA. The half that is about defending US government/M-I systems from "outside" attackers.

Thus they worry that certain aspects of kdbus will break workstation and server mandatory access control systems, like say SELinux.

Thing is that the push for kdbus is coming from the embedded Linux community, and the automobile industry in particular. There they have already adopted dbus into proprietary code, but find it to have lower performance than the QNX IPC/RPC they are used to.

So they want a in kernel dbus in the belief that it will spruce up performance. And for them access control is a minor concern, if not a downright detriment.