The author addresses the issue.
Perhaps I’m too skeptical and/or have trust issues, but isn’t this too little too late? This issue had been ignored for so long, but -suddenly- within 24 hours of this very peculiar find[1], Ventoys maintainer goes into full damage-control mode. Should we just accept that?
Sorry, at least for now, I simply don’t buy it.
Spoiler alert: Ventoy’s sister software -called iVentoy- employs a trick that has been utilized for installing compromised kernel drivers. ↩︎
Should we just accept that?
Accept it or not, you choice. Nobody cares.
Is frankly annoying to see how much shit FOSS (or OSS) developer have to eat for every little misstep or for not employing their unpaid time to solve other people’s issues (some of which are really laughable, btw).
I was trying to stir a discussion/conversation: How much can we tolerate from our beloved (F(L))OSS developers? Can they get away with anything as long as they return with some promise?f
Fedora installer heads stay winning
Is there a good alternative to ventoy?
Of course I coukd flash the iso directly to the usb stick but thats not what I mean. I mean a trustworthy foss ventoy alternative.
You can use glim or build your own tool using grub. Edit: The article on Arch Wiki describes the manual process and also list more automated alternatives.
Can I boot windows with it?
Would anyone that installed their current system using ventoy be at risk? Should I reinstall?
Would anyone that installed their current system using ventoy be at risk?
In absolute sense; we don’t know for sure. It’s possible to interpret this[1] in widely different ways:
- Just the unfortunate occurrence of a set of uneventful events from an innocent party that tries to make up.
- (OR) A facade (from a malignant/malicious party) in order to keep the communities’ trust so that people continue to get caught in the web.
- (AND) Anything in between*
Should I reinstall?
You should make up your own mind on that. The last time I installed an OS, I had become aware of this concern (i.e. the blobs). At that time, trusting it for what it was, would go against the threat model I’ve set for myself. And, consequently, if I had any (other) systems that were installed with it, then I would have proceeded to reinstall. But I’m not you, nor are you me… So, at the end of day, if you had something that resembled a threat model, then you would have used that to answer this question for yourself. As you don’t seem to have one, making one just for this seems overkill. However, you could (re)assess how safe your system is in its current state and act accordingly. (Just to name a couple of examples:)
- Do you just randomly run scripts that you’ve found on GitHub? Well, then this ventoy situation shouldn’t be very concerning.
- Do you deliberately refuse to install the unverified software on Flathub and only[2] stick to its verified offering? Then, you should seriously consider reinstalling.
i.e. The lack of communication regarding this issue for more than a year, the recent finding in which fake root certificates are injected. And, of course, the maintainer finally addressing the issue. ↩︎
Within the context of Flathub*. The packages found in the repo of your distro are trusted by default. ↩︎
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Man I used to have a manually made multibootusb using grub config files and isos but moved to ventoy for convenience and now I can’t find where I backup up de configuration…
Pinging @fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zone
What is Ventoy?
Software to create bootable usb drives. It’s handy, you just copy ISOs into the drive and pick which one to boot into instead of overwriting the drive with a single ISO.
I don’t know whether I put too much weight on this, but the lack of English proficiency in a developer rubs me the wrong way. I had already stopped using Ventoy and reinstalled the machines where I used it on, and this makes me glad I did.
