Matthew Garrett: Linux Lockdown and Hibernation (again)

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by Planet GNOME / KDE News at 13 Oct, 18:14 UTC

(This is an updated version of an older post - the introduction remains the same, the technical details are different) Linux draws a distinction between code running in kernel (kernel space) and applications running in userland (user space). This is enforced at the hardware level - in x86-speak1…