Re: Which Debian packages leak information to the network?

From	Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.security
Subject	Re: Which Debian packages leak information to the network?
Date	2016-05-20 11:00 +0200
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Am 2016-05-20 um 10:34 schrieb donoban:
>
> I am running Debian on Qubes OS, I use gnome-calculator on a vault
> domain (a VM without any network device) because I though it does not
> need Internet or data/files from another domain. So without any
> knowledge I was protecting myself from this privacy leak...
>
> Maybe Debian should adopt a strong policy about what packages should
> have Internet access and what does not... All packages not supposed to
> have Internet access will be blocked by firewall or a similar approach
> (probably some kind of whitelist).
>

   Well, in order to block network access for individual apps you would 
need something like SELinux. However I do not know abouot the 
availability of security profiles for all such apps, neither do I know 
about a convenient tool to browse such profiles f.i. in order to see 
whehther a given app is allowed to access the network.

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Which Debian packages leak information to the network? Patrick Schleizer <adrelanos@riseup.net> - 2016-05-18 18:00 +0200
  Re: Which Debian packages leak information to the network? Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> - 2016-05-18 18:40 +0200
    Re: Which Debian packages leak information to the network? Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2016-05-18 19:00 +0200
      Re: Which Debian packages leak information to the network? "georg@riseup.net" <georg@riseup.net> - 2016-05-19 02:00 +0200
        Re: Which Debian packages leak information to the network? Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-05-19 06:00 +0200
      Re: Which Debian packages leak information to the network? Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2016-05-19 17:50 +0200
      Re: Which Debian packages leak information to the network? Patrick Schleizer <adrelanos@riseup.net> - 2016-05-19 18:10 +0200
        Re: Which Debian packages leak information to the network? "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> - 2016-05-19 18:30 +0200
      Re: Which Debian packages leak information to the network? donoban <donoban@riseup.net> - 2016-05-20 10:40 +0200
        Re: Which Debian packages leak information to the network? Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2016-05-20 11:00 +0200
          Re: Which Debian packages leak information to the network? ale <ale@wwb.cc> - 2016-05-20 11:30 +0200
            Re: Which Debian packages leak information to the network? donoban <donoban@riseup.net> - 2016-05-20 12:00 +0200
            Re: Which Debian packages leak information to the network? Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> - 2016-05-20 18:20 +0200
  Re: Which Debian packages leak information to the network? Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-05-19 18:50 +0200
    Re: Which Debian packages leak information to the network? Weber <kweber33@gmx.de> - 2016-05-20 03:50 +0200
      Re: Which Debian packages leak information to the network? Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> - 2016-05-20 08:30 +0200
    Re: Which Debian packages leak information to the network? Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-05-20 04:50 +0200

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