I would suggest that the effort you're asking for is already going in to
Debian itself, and that together the maintainers deliver a system that
is a reasonable compromise between security and convenience for a
general use personal computer. People who want to go beyond that and
offer a public
Nice discussion.
Having learned Linux out of disgust for Microsoft,
and now having run server and networks for many years,
I have to agree that knowledge and forethought are key,
but the notifications and tips that Tiger and other packages provided
have helped me gain the knowledge necessary
to ha
On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 08:22:59PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> For subsystems that are complex and security critical (like Apache and Samba
> for example) you could have other packages providing check scripts that look
> for common configuration choices that might reduce security. Such scripts
On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 11:46:54AM -0600, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> The only way to achieve real security is through knowledge. Pressing a
> shiny automated button is just going to implement what somebody else thinks
> is good for the system they assume you're running. Find the security
> websit
The only way to achieve real security is through knowledge. Pressing a
shiny automated button is just going to implement what somebody else
thinks is good for the system they assume you're running. Find the
security websites, podcasts, newsletters, books. Learn what you really
need to do for
On Saturday, 7 March 2020 11:39:05 PM AEDT vi...@vheuser.com wrote:
> Isn't this what Tiger does?
>
> apt-cache search tiger
>
> tiger - Report system security vulnerabilities
> tiger-otheros - Scripts to run Tiger in other operating systems
Tiger is something that the tool I'm proposing could s
Isn't this what Tiger does?
apt-cache search tiger
tiger - Report system security vulnerabilities
tiger-otheros - Scripts to run Tiger in other operating systems
Vince
On 2020/03/07 07:08 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 9:30 AM Russell Coker wrote:
I think it would be good t
On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 9:30 AM Russell Coker wrote:
> I think it would be good to have a package for improving system security.
...
> What do you think about this idea?
There are a number of other tools for this sort of thing already,
usually they get written and become outdated at some point the
* Russell Coker:
> I think it would be good to have a package for improving system
> security. It could depend on packages like spectre-meltdown-checker
> and also contain scripts that look for ways of improving system
> security. For example recommend SE Linux or Apparmor (if you don't
> have o
Russell Coker:
> I think it would be good to have a package for improving system security.
https://github.com/Whonix/security-misc
> It
> could depend on packages like spectre-meltdown-checker and also contain
> scripts that look for ways of improving system security. For example
> recommend
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