Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-05-02 Thread Aaron Zauner
Hi Kevin, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > Debian developers not being able to upload security fixes is part of > the mix but then I would guess you could more easily bring down the TOR > network too than a private VPN and filtering would be much more > difficult so I would say TOR is not *optimum* for sec

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-30 Thread Aaron Zauner
Kevin Chadwick wrote: >> I'm confused, what? How does Tor lower security and at the same time, >> it provides privacy? > > Just like antivirus scanners bring greater exploitability especially > if you are not vulnerable to detectable viruses then so does Tor. What?! I don't even,.. > It adds a

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-18 Thread Aaron Zauner
Hi Kevin, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > However I do believe Debian and Linux should be doing a lot more > outside of grsec/pax/gentoo hardened. I could be wrong but I'm under the > impression that Ubuntu is ahead (maybe just as more bleeding edge and > PAE by default etc. though I am surprised they

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-16 Thread Aaron Zauner
Hi Balint, Bálint Réczey wrote: > The upstream project I'm most involved in is Wireshark where we try to > employ most of the state of the art techniques for improving code > quality but I think the Wireshark project is in much better position > than most other projects. Thanks to dedicated team a

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-16 Thread Aaron Zauner
Hi Balint, Balint Reczey wrote: > Hi, > > I have posted the following idea on my blog [7] to get comments from > people not on this list, but obviously this is the mailing list where > the proposal should be discussed. :-) I generally agree with your concerns. But I have to concur that hardening

Bug#743966: ITP: lua-term -- a Lua module for manipulating a terminal

2014-04-08 Thread Aaron Zauner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Aaron Zauner * Package name: lua-term Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Rob Hoelz * URL : https://github.com/hoelzro/lua-term * License : MIT Programming Lang: Lua Description : a Lua module for manipulating a

Bug#743823: ITP: lmod -- Lua environment modules

2014-04-06 Thread Aaron Zauner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Aaron Zauner * Package name: lmod Version : 5.3.2 Upstream Author : Robert McLay * URL : https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects/lmod * License : MIT Programming Lang: Lua Description : Lua environment modules