On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 5:07 PM Lee <ler...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] > > A more proactive endeavor would be to document known best practices > > on the wiki. A quick search found a couple pages that might serve > > as starting points: > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/SecurityManagement > > https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening -- says it's for package maintainers > > > > Anyone who is serious about such a project probably has a long road ahead > > of them. > > Is there a generally preferred web link checker program for Debian? > I took a look at > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-manual/ch04s15.en.html > and the 4.15. Protecting against buffer overflows section has this bit: > recompile the source code to introduce proper checks that prevent > overflows, using the > http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/ patch for GCC > (which is used by > http://www.adamantix.org) > > http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/ patch gives me > a connect failed and > http://www.adamantix.org sends me to a vietnamese tv site?? > > Seems to me that an easy first step would be to check that all the > links still work.
Wikipedia changes links to the Wayback Machine once a link goes bad. Jeff
