Brummbaer

The problem here is that somehow people got convinced that internet infrastructure is some kind of “magical realm” where physics and laws stop working.

If I rent out a house and someone starts doing “all the illegal things” at once in there, in secret, it’s not my responsibility, nor does that mean that the police or me as the property owner needs to do daily inspections because someone could do “all the illegal” things in secret.

If someone puts a neon side up on that house announcing “all the illegal things here, open from 9-18h” - then people get involved.

I’m speaking about the firmware and other blobs that are there because devices wouldn’t work without it.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/WHENCE

Nice, something running in an eBPF context with a blob in the middle, what could go wrong …

Also there are already a lot of binary blobs in the kernel, that also makes me nervous a bit.