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systemd birthDate Merge: Corporate Filings & Governance Failure Investigation pulled Amutable's founding documents from the German Handelsregister The corporate filings show three equal shareholders, no outside investors, and self-dealing exemptions that let any founder sign contracts between the company and their own personal entities All three founders were employed at Microsoft when they signed the founding deed. A hidden shareholders' agreement referenced three times in the Articles of Association but never filed publicly governs economic rights, IP assignment, and vesting terms the public cannot see. Three decisions put the birthDate field into #systemd. Each was made by someone with a direct financial interest in the outcome No one disclosed those interests. systemd has no conflict-of-interest policy, no steering committee, no community veto, and no disclosure requirements. The project that boots every major Linux distribution has less formal governance than a typical mid-size open source project.

A systemd fork has set out as a fu*k you to age verification. Liberated systemd is a fork of mainline systemd started by Jeffrey Seathrún Sardina, a machine learning/AI researcher who apparently had enough of where things were heading. The project is straightforward about its purpose; strip out what it considers surveillance-enabling code, keep everything else intact, and stay in sync with upstream as it develops. https://itsfoss.com/news/systemd-fork-strips-out-age-verification/ @itsfoss_official #AgeVerification#SystemD

SystemD Root Access Exploit Found, Devuan Team Calls SystemD "Unicorn Sh*t" "Found yet another high severity #systemd bug in #Ubuntu: local root privilege escalation (CVE-2026-3888) https://cybersecurity88.com/news/ubuntu-cve-2026-3888-timing-flaw-in-systemd-cleanup-enables-root-privilege-escalation/ Let us wish all #Devuan users a wonderful day out with their family for a merry father's day, instead of showeling unicorn shit." https://xcancel.com/DevuanOrg/status/2034560405968712179 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yukEnElXUg Lennart Poettering #microsoft#Linux#stalking#surveillance#backdoor#trojan

#Systemd Adds #Age#Verification & #Reddit#Linux Censors Age Verification Posts Plus: Which Open Source Operating Systems plan to include Age Verification? The Lunduke Journal compiles a list. Does It Age Verify?: https://github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify https://lunduke.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3erhbwqIAM Lennart Poettering #microsoft#stalking#surveillance#backdoor#trojan

#Movuan#PINE64 The Movuan project was started by community member lxb and announced in a forum post as an alternative to mobile distributions using the #systemd init system. Thanks to being forked from Mobian, the project makes use of modified Mobian debos to build it’s images. One of the modifications that lxb makes is an optional script which can customize a Movuan image to install extra software like AndroidImpEx for importing contacts and sms messages from an Android phone, Ungoogled Chromium, local caching DNS (bind) tunnelled through TLS (stubby) to privacy minded servers and an inbuilt adblocker through a caching proxy (squid). These modifications are a personal preference of lxb’s but anyone is free to use them to help improve their privacy. https://pine64.org/2025/08/27/august_2025_movuan/

#Systemd Adding The Ability to Boot Directly Into A Disk Image Downloaded Via HTTP https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-disk-image-boot-HTTP #Linux#backdoor

Here are some links about #systemd#alternatives for #Linux in no particular order. Which are your favorite alternatives and distros? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems https://suckless.org/sucks/systemd/ https://unixsheikh.com/articles/the-real-motivation-behind-systemd.html https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/ https://nosystemd.org/ https://skarnet.org/software/systemd.html https://the-world-after-systemd.ungleich.ch/ https://ewontfix.com/14/ https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=120652 https://www.devuan.org/os/announce/ https://www.devuan.org/os/init-freedom https://thehackernews.com/2019/01/linux-systemd-exploit.html https://judecnelson.blogspot.com/2014/09/systemd-biggest-fallacies.html https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2016/05/18/systemd-it-keeps-getting-worse/ https://systemd-free.artixlinux.org/why.php Some more added here too: https://start.me/p/Kg8keE/priv-sec #systemd#Linux

Lennart Poettering intends to replace "sudo" with #systemd's run0. Here's a quick PoC to demonstrate root permission hijacking by exploiting the fact "systemd-run" (the basis of uid0/run0, the sudo replacer) creates a user owned pty for communication with the new "root" process. This isn't the only bug of course, it's not possible on Linux to read the environment of a root owned process but as systemd creates a service in the system slice, you can query D-BUS and learn sensitive information passed to the process env, such as API keys or other secrets. https://fixupx.com/hackerfantastic/status/1785495587514638559 Nitter mirror: https://xcancel.com/hackerfantastic/status/1785495587514638559

#systemd is a highly complex #Linux#backdoor https://skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/why.html