Cybersecurity

8214 readers

74 users here now

c/cybersecurity is a community centered on the cybersecurity and information security profession. You can come here to discuss news, post something interesting, or just chat with others.

THE RULES

Instance Rules

Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
No Ads / Spamming.
No pornography.

Community Rules

Idk, keep it semi-professional?
Nothing illegal. We're all ethical here.
Rules will be added/redefined as necessary.

If you ask someone to hack your "friends" socials you're just going to get banned so don't do that.

Learn about hacking

Hack the Box

Try Hack Me

Pico Capture the flag

Other security-related communities !databreaches@lemmy.zip !netsec@lemmy.world !securitynews@infosec.pub !cybersecurity@infosec.pub !pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

Notable mention to !cybersecuritymemes@lemmy.world

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

kid@sh.itjust.works

Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social

-6

GrapheneOS: Another contributor attacked & banned by Daniel Micay (tech.michaelaltfield.net)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by maltfield@monero.town to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

12 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Why was I banned from GrapheneOS? That’s a good question.


Why I was banned from GrapheneOS by Daniel Micay)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Speiser0@feddit.org -1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I don't think I want to believe the person (you, OP, the banned one) who makes drama like this. Who the fuck, after being banned, makes a poster like this against the project they were banned from, and posts it on social media (i.e. here on lemmy)? Someone who shouldn't have been banned? Where does the hatred come from?

Idk what your previous interactions with the GrapheneOS was. While the stuff you posted on your website makes the maintainers of GrapheneOS look harsh, it's just your side. Do I now want the GrapheneOS maintainers to display their side, so the internet judges can make their decision if GrapheneOS is to be canceled? No, I don't. I don't see anything wrong in them deciding to ban someone who apparently behaved inappropriately. It looks like your ban reason was something like spreading misinformation, which is a valid ban reason imo.

You said you couldn't get in contact with the maintainers, but here they clearly show an e-mail address, as well as other communication channels: https://grapheneos.org/contact

This is an important security feature for a user who is playing with a new app. Sometimes a fat-finger mistake or a misbehaving app may begin to do something undesired (eg exfiltrating data by mistake), and it's necessary for the user to quickly kill the app.

The above process takes a long time, and is probably not fast enough to kill an app that, for example, is sending an unwanted POST request. By adding this feature, the time to kill the app could be reduced to ~1 second.

It's not a security feature and this is not a real world scenario.

Why would you have an application installed that if you start it, it does malicious stuff? Also "kill it fast before it does bad things" sounds kinda absurd to me.

Anyway, idk if there's something wrong with GrapheneOS. I didn't look too much into this stuff. All I want to say is, this kind drama, coming from the banned person themselves, does not play in favor of your case. You should've made your blog post as drama-free as possible, shortly naming the reason that was given to you, why you were banned, state why you find it unfair, and move on, not ask the reader "Why was I banned? Please read this 20 pages of drama text.", and not accuse anyone of anything that you can't prove.

Now, the question is: What the heck is wrong with me? I have nothing to do with this. Why am I writing this long comment? Who am I feeding?