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Re: Security

From Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Security
Date 2022-01-28 17:20 +0100
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 6:57 AM Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:

> Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 12:39 PM Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Ma, 25 ian 22, 16:13:23, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > > And please don't bother to reply with "there are no other users on this
> > > system I should worry about", the bad guys could still find ways to get
> > > in, e.g. via a compromised browser, regardless if you are behind a
> > > firewall or not[1].
> > >
> >
> > Servers don't have browsers installed on them, for exactly this reason.
>
> Note that browsers can sneak in where you aren't expecting them;
> "headless chromium" is a part of many automated QA systems and
> HTML to PDF generators.
>

Absolutely, and also unnecessary on servers. Especially in presence of
cloud where we can make a clean custom spin easily.

-dsr-
>

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  Re: Security Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2022-01-25 21:50 +0100
    Re: Security Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2022-01-25 22:00 +0100
      Re: Security Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-01-26 16:40 +0100
  Re: Security Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2022-01-25 23:20 +0100
    Re: Security Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-01-26 19:40 +0100
      Re: Security Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-01-28 04:50 +0100
        Re: Security Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-28 14:20 +0100
          Re: Security Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-01-28 17:20 +0100
            Re: Security Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-28 19:00 +0100
        Re: Security Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2022-01-28 16:20 +0100
          Re: Security Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-01-28 17:30 +0100
          Re: Security Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2022-01-30 13:40 +0100
            Re: Security Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2022-01-30 14:20 +0100
              Re: Security Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-01-30 14:40 +0100
                Re: Security Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2022-01-30 17:50 +0100
                Re: Security Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-02-04 09:50 +0100
                Re: Security Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2022-02-04 10:20 +0100
                Re: Security <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-04 10:20 +0100
            Re: Security Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2022-02-01 12:30 +0100
              Re: Security Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2022-02-02 02:00 +0100
                Re: Security Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2022-02-02 15:10 +0100
        Re: Security Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-01-28 17:30 +0100

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