This graph is the one I'm most excited about: the lifetime of security flaws in Linux is finally starting to get shorter (and the number of fixed flaws continues to rise).
https://hachyderm.io/@LinuxSecSummit@social.kernel.org/114750428620118674
1️⃣4️⃣ Here's the 14th post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v258 release of systemd. #systemd258
The concept of system credentials has existed since a while in systemd. It allows parameterizing the system (and the services running on it) in a secure and hierarchical way. You can pass them into containers and into VMs, for example via SMBIOS Type #11 vendor strings. While the transport is low-level and firmware compatible, they can reasonably only be consumed in userspace.
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[$] Topics from the virtual filesystem layer
In the first filesystem-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), virtual filesystem (VFS) layer co-maintainer Christian B [...]