Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: ... >> * We might want automation which was capable of automatically >> shutting a server down into some kind of minimal maintenance mode, >> when it is unable to verify its own security support status. > > That sounds like it would introduce a denial of service attack.
That was my first thought too -- it would be particularly embarrassing if this caught on to an extent where we were to enable it on the servers providing the infrastructure that were relied upon to check for proper service. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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