[Help Welcome] KVM Development - staying the course

No this is implied by Tux and not included in the original.

A post was merged into an existing topic: kicksecure on host

Link Kicksecure ™ for KVM with Xfce is deprecated. That would be Kicksecure ™ for KVM with Xfce now, waiting to be populated.

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https://www.whonix.org/wiki/KVM#3D_Graphics_Acceleration any update?

KVM: Difference between revisions - Whonix

Done. Thanks to @GavinPacini who I assume is behind these changes.

Hopefully I’ll get to it soon. Any idea what a common graphics intensive program I can use to benchmark?

Not sure what exactly you are referring to but I do see my name in the diff. I don’t remember making those changes however. :confused:

Careful with these changes. Could be malicious Specifically if by anonymous.

= First-time User? = Name

  • {{P@ssword-01}}

Nonsense edit.

You’ll need to log into your Whonix-Gateway once and run

Really required? That would be a bug.

Hm so someone impersonated you? Do you have a wiki account registered?

Yes, I do: Login required - Whonix

I think someone just wrote my first name, but actually, if I am reading the diff correctly, that edit comes from an unregistered user.

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Different diffs can be generated using using the history page.

https://www.whonix.org/w/index.php?title=KVM&action=history

Examples:

These show exactly the authorship.

Indeed. Not by you. No question about it.

Correct.

Someone wrote your name into the edit text area. Either by mistake or trolling. It makes no sense.

Correct.

No.

As seen in the diff it was an anonymous edit.

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= First-time User? = Gavin Template:P@ssword-01

Template:P@ssword-01 i dont know what should be filled with, but its not showing the text

cc @HulaHoop

So you made the edit? What was this for?

No.

It was a malicious / nonsense / trolling edit.

This is important.

Could you please re-read from here, follow all links? [Help Welcome] KVM Development - staying the course - #468 by Patrick

There has been a malicious / nonsense / trolling edit. These two:

It’s a breach of wiki review security. The impact is tiny. That edit should have never gone public. You shouldn’t have confirmed that edit. Should have been rejected. If not completely understood, please either ask and/or reject.

Also that edit is yet to be reverted.

Makes no sense to ask who made what edit as it can be seen in the wiki history. Link to wiki history:
Permission error - Whonix

In the wiki history link https://www.whonix.org/w/index.php?title=KVM&action=history

There every wiki version can be compared with every wiki version and it will show exactly what was changed (added text, removed text, edited text) as well as show which wiki account made the edit if any. Otherwise

Example wiki diff (these are easily accessible from the wiki history):
https://www.whonix.org/w/index.php?title=KVM&type=revision&diff=83136&oldid=82487

On that link…

Take special note to:

Top left, base revision to compare:

Revision as of 22:04, 9 March 2022 (edit) 127.0.0.1

Edit by 127.0.0.1 - localhost (because the server doesn’t store IPs). = anonymous edit, no wiki account.

Top right, target revision to compare:

Revision as of 07:47, 19 April 2022 (edit) (undo) HulaHoop

Contains your user name.


As for the first malicious wiki edit:

https://www.whonix.org/w/index.php?title=KVM&type=revision&diff=82455&oldid=82310)

Left top side, previous version by 127.0.0.1 (no wiki account, anonymous). (That’s just the last edit that was accepted. Not necessarily an issue.)

Right top side, changed version also by 127.0.0.1.

So 100% confirmed it was a anonymous edit.

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Sometimes I make edits when I’m too lazy to sign in, that’s why I assumed that’s what happened here. Thought it was coming from a trusted source.There’s no excuse for this lapse though and it’s the first time I encounter this.


Keep or discard? Can this have security consequences?

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Great that this is resolved now.

I guess the user who posted Initial setup Whonix-Gateway might have added this trying to be helpful.

Discard if not reproducible.

No security issue.