Posts tagged "security"

While building a Rust driver for my Razer keyboard, the AI I was working with wrote a udev rule that let any program I ran read my keystrokes, underneath Wayland. It even told me it was safe. A second AI caught it past midnight. How it happened, how I proved it, why the first fix didn't work, and a script to check your own machine.

A practical guide to fixing the three things that consistently break after a BIOS update on a dual-boot Arch Linux + Windows 11 setup: Ethernet ID changes, Windows stealing the EFI boot order, and Secure Boot key loss.

How to configure Secure Boot on Arch Linux with a dual-boot Windows 11 setup — using sbctl to generate and enrol custom keys, sign the bootloader and kernel, and recover after a BIOS update wipes your keys.

Build an encrypted, portable Arch Linux USB. LUKS2, hardware-agnostic boot on Intel/AMD/ARM, UUID portability, and multi-machine tactics.

Run your entire Arch system from a Samsung T7 SSD—LUKS encryption, Secure Boot, GPU support (AMD/Nvidia/Intel). Works on any hardware. No dual-boot, no VM, just plug and go.