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Re: making Debian secure by default

From Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: making Debian secure by default
Date 2024-04-01 02:30 +0200
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2024, 12:24 PM Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:53:04 +0000
> Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 05:47:44PM -0000, Curt wrote:
> > > On 2024-03-28, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > A more proactive endeavor would be to document known best
> > > > practices
> > >
> > > It makes no fucking difference, because your important data is
> > > elsewhere and completely out of your control.
> >
> > I WAS going to gently suggest that you have a lie down in a cool,
> > shaded room, but which of us had this on our 2024 bingo card?
> >
> > https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4
> >
> > (Upstream xz/lzma project compromised, hostile code inserted into
> > sshd in Debian sid and other leading edge distros.)
> >
>
> Hah! Most of us remember Heartbleed.
>
> He's actually referring to credentials stored externally being
> compromised. I'm not sure what can be done about that: maybe make some
>

I would think A Smith's comment here was directed to this interesting bit
from the report he cited:

Given the activity over several weeks, the committer is either directly
involved or there was some quite severe compromise of their
system. Unfortunately the latter looks like the less likely explanation,
given
they communicated on various lists about the "fixes" mentioned above.

End quote. The issue appears to be a bad actor masquerading as (or being)
the real maintainer. There's no software-development or identity management
solution to that, it has to be organizational. We're lucky to have software
guys as sharp the one who caught this.

kind of, you know, law, about storing sensitive data, and prosecuting
> people who are responsible for failure to keep it secure... nothing
> like accountability for discouraging negligence.
>
> --
> Joe
>
>

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making Debian secure by default Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-03-27 22:40 +0100
  Re: making Debian secure by default Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-03-28 00:10 +0100
    Re: making Debian secure by default Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-03-28 05:30 +0100
      Re: making Debian secure by default Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-03-28 14:40 +0100
        Re: making Debian secure by default Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-03-28 16:30 +0100
          Re: making Debian secure by default Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-03-28 16:50 +0100
            Re: making Debian secure by default Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-03-28 19:20 +0100
              Re: making Debian secure by default Ralph Aichinger <ra@h5.or.at> - 2024-03-29 08:50 +0100
              Re: making Debian secure by default Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-03-29 20:10 +0100
              Re: making Debian secure by default Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-03-29 20:40 +0100
          Re: making Debian secure by default Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-03-28 17:00 +0100
            Re: making Debian secure by default Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-03-28 21:20 +0100
          Re: making Debian secure by default Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2024-03-28 18:50 +0100
            Re: making Debian secure by default Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-03-28 20:40 +0100
            Re: making Debian secure by default Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-03-29 18:00 +0100
              Re: making Debian secure by default Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-03-29 18:30 +0100
                Re: making Debian secure by default Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2024-03-29 18:50 +0100
                Re: making Debian secure by default Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2024-04-01 02:30 +0200
                Re: making Debian secure by default Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-04-01 03:50 +0200
                Re: making Debian secure by default Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2024-04-01 05:00 +0200
                Re: making Debian secure by default Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2024-04-01 10:40 +0200
                Re: making Debian secure by default <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-04-06 09:50 +0200
                Re: making Debian secure by default Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2024-04-06 09:50 +0200
                Re: making Debian secure by default <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-04-06 09:51 +0200
                Re: making Debian secure by default <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-04-06 09:50 +0200
                Re: making Debian secure by default Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-04-06 09:50 +0200
                Re: making Debian secure by default Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2024-04-06 09:51 +0200
                Re: making Debian secure by default Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-04-06 09:51 +0200
                Re: making Debian secure by default Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-04-06 09:51 +0200
                Re: making Debian secure by default Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2024-04-06 09:52 +0200
                Re: making Debian secure by default Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-04-06 09:52 +0200
                Re: making Debian secure by default Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-04-06 09:51 +0200
                Re: making Debian secure by default John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-04-06 09:51 +0200
                Re: making Debian secure by default Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-04-06 09:52 +0200
                Re: making Debian secure by default John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-04-06 09:52 +0200
                Re: making Debian secure by default Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-04-06 09:52 +0200
              Re: making Debian secure by default Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2024-03-29 18:50 +0100
                Re: making Debian secure by default Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-03-29 21:00 +0100
                Re: making Debian secure by default Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2024-03-30 17:10 +0100
          Re: making Debian secure by default Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-03-28 19:10 +0100
            Re: making Debian secure by default Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-03-28 23:20 +0100
    Re: making Debian secure by default Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> - 2024-03-28 17:30 +0100
      Re: making Debian secure by default Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> - 2024-03-28 18:10 +0100
      Re: making Debian secure by default Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-03-28 18:10 +0100
        Re: making Debian secure by default Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> - 2024-03-28 18:10 +0100
  Re: making Debian secure by default jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-03-28 00:40 +0100
    Re: making Debian secure by default Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-03-28 00:50 +0100
      Re: making Debian secure by default Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-03-28 05:50 +0100
  Re: making Debian secure by default <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-03-28 06:20 +0100
    Re: making Debian secure by default Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2024-03-28 06:30 +0100
      Re: making Debian secure by default <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-03-28 08:20 +0100
      Re: making Debian secure by default Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2024-03-28 12:20 +0100
        Re: making Debian secure by default Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2024-03-28 12:40 +0100
          Re: making Debian secure by default David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-03-28 21:40 +0100
            Re: making Debian secure by default Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2024-03-29 10:40 +0100
              Re: making Debian secure by default David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-03-30 04:00 +0100
    Re: making Debian secure by default Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2024-03-28 15:50 +0100
    Re: making Debian secure by default Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-03-28 17:30 +0100
      Re: making Debian secure by default Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-03-28 18:10 +0100
        Re: making Debian secure by default Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-03-28 21:50 +0100
      Re: making Debian secure by default tomas@tuxteam.de - 2024-03-28 18:30 +0100
        Re: making Debian secure by default Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-03-28 20:30 +0100
          Re: making Debian secure by default Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-03-28 20:30 +0100
            Re: making Debian secure by default Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2024-03-28 21:50 +0100
          Re: making Debian secure by default tomas@tuxteam.de - 2024-03-28 21:20 +0100
            Re: making Debian secure by default Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2024-03-29 17:10 +0100
              Re: making Debian secure by default debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-03-29 21:50 +0100
    Re: making Debian secure by default debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-03-28 22:50 +0100
  Re: making Debian secure by default Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch> - 2024-03-28 12:10 +0100
    Re: making Debian secure by default Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2024-03-28 17:30 +0100
    Re: making Debian secure by default Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2024-03-28 17:30 +0100
      Re: making Debian secure by default Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-03-28 17:40 +0100
  Re: making Debian secure by default Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2024-03-28 21:50 +0100
  Re: making Debian secure by default Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2024-03-28 21:50 +0100
  Re: making Debian secure by default Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-03-29 16:40 +0100
  Re: making Debian secure by default Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-03-31 21:10 +0200
    Re: making Debian secure by default Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2024-03-31 21:30 +0200
      Re: making Debian secure by default gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-03-31 22:30 +0200
        Re: making Debian secure by default Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-03-31 23:20 +0200
          Re: making Debian secure by default gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-04-01 01:00 +0200

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