Hi. After having brushed up on some technical aspects of security I would like to understand why Debian isn't secure be default.
As we all know a lot of security breaches occur because of overflow errors. Difference protective measurements has been developed for example such as "executable space protection". As seen in this list of comparison both Fedora and SUSE are running with some method of protection enabled by default whereas Debian isn't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions#Security_features Another example is "stack checking" in GCC where for example OpenBSD ships with this setting as "enabled-by-default" whereas it is "off-by-default" on Debian. I would like to understand why Debian is running with this policy of "security is off by default"? Kind regards RS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110123072917.6f210f96.coolz...@it.dk
