Re: Scripts that run insecurely-downloaded code

2020-05-02 Thread Davide Prina
On 01/05/20 22:00, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: On 01/05/2020 20:31, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: https isn´t any more secure than http as long as you do not have a verifiably trustworthy server certificate that you can check for. As we know the certification authority system is totally broken. Impe

Re: Scripts that run insecurely-downloaded code

2020-05-02 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Davide Prina wrote: Not all the software that implement HTTPS verify the validity of the certificate and the validity of all the certification chain. These scripts are using wget or curl, which both say they do verify certificates. If they do not do so correctly, please report this. For exam

Fwd: Re: Scripts that run insecurely-downloaded code

2020-05-02 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
The list seems to have lost this, as it doesn't appear at https://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2020/05/maillist.html. Forwarded Message Subject:Re: Scripts that run insecurely-downloaded code Date: Fri, 01 May 2020 22:51:05 + From: Marcus Dean Adams Reply-T

Re: arbitrary code execution on unformatted usb stick

2020-05-02 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 25.04.20 um 15:38 schrieb Elmar Stellnberger: Dear readers of the debian-security mailing list   The first time I had lost my new coreboot i7 notebook when I plugged a vfat formatted usb stick into the notebook run merely offline where I developed the a̅tea. Suddenly low level operating sy

Re: arbitrary code execution on unformatted usb stick

2020-05-02 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
I simply have to give up because I have no clean computer to work on. I can now envision better why the BND is said to still use old style mechanic typewriters. You can never fully trust electronics, namely/especially everything that has a CPU. If you want to communicate securely do not use GPG

Re: Scripts that run insecurely-downloaded code

2020-05-02 Thread estellnb
Am 02.05.2020 02:53, schrieb Paul Wise: On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 8:18 PM Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: This is already policy (and enforced by blocking network access) for official Debian package builds: dependencies must be installed by the package manager, not the build script. Correction: the d

Re: Scripts that run insecurely-downloaded code

2020-05-02 Thread estellnb
Am 02.05.2020 10:14, schrieb Davide Prina: On 01/05/20 22:00, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: On 01/05/2020 20:31, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: https isn´t any more secure than http as long as you do not have a verifiably trustworthy server certificate that you can check for. As we know the certifica

Re: Scripts that run insecurely-downloaded code

2020-05-02 Thread estellnb
Am 02.05.2020 00:51, schrieb Marcus Dean Adams: It's better than nothing. Even if somebody were using self signed certificates that aren't publicly trusted, the information would still be encrypted in transit. Whether the other end is trustworthy is another issue and up to the user and package ma

Fwd: Re: AW:webhosting mit DANE

2020-05-02 Thread estellnb
I have decided to not only forward but now also translate the following email for you. A conversation with someone I know from here made me believe that you would understand things better if you knew the content of that email: Weitergeleitete Nachricht Betreff: Re: AW:webho

Re: Scripts that run insecurely-downloaded code

2020-05-02 Thread estellnb
I've seen this before with Firefox. Basically Firefox has disabled weaker certificates from working, where Chrome and IE still accept ones with 128bit encryption, they do show an error (at least in Chrome) if you dig into the SSL debug screen. Firefox just refuses to view it. Ah, I have read

Fwd: Re: arbitrary code execution on unformatted usb stick

2020-05-02 Thread estellnb
I am forwarding you this email in the hope that it will be useful: (They simply could not have known what reason I was installing mininet for and that I would try to install it at all if they would not have observed what I was doing even if they would have supposed that I wanna continue on a̅te

Re: Scripts that run insecurely-downloaded code

2020-05-02 Thread Jason Fergus
On Sat, 2020-05-02 at 18:01 +0200, estel...@elstel.org wrote: > > Am 02.05.2020 10:14, schrieb Davide Prina: > > On 01/05/20 22:00, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: > > > On 01/05/2020 20:31, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > > > > https isn´t any more secure than http as long as you do not have a > > > > veri