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Re: package for security advice

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* 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 one installed), recommend lockdown=confidentiality if using
> kernel 5.4 or greater, and do other similar checks and warnings.
> For each issue there would ideally be a URL provided (maybe to the
> Debian Wiki, maybe to somewhere else) that describes the issue.

This sounds related to OpenSCAP <https://www.open-scap.org/>.  Some
people value having such tools.

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package for security advice Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> - 2020-03-07 10:40 +0100
  Re: package for security advice Patrick Schleizer <adrelanos@riseup.net> - 2020-03-07 12:10 +0100
  Re: package for security advice Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2020-03-07 13:00 +0100
  Re: package for security advice Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2020-03-07 13:10 +0100
    Re: package for security advice "vince@vheuser.com" <vince@vheuser.com> - 2020-03-07 13:50 +0100
      Re: package for security advice Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> - 2020-03-07 14:30 +0100
  Re: package for security advice Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins@tarcanfel.org> - 2020-03-07 19:10 +0100
    Re: package for security advice Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2020-03-07 19:30 +0100
      Re: package for security advice "vince@vheuser.com" <vince@vheuser.com> - 2020-03-07 20:20 +0100
      Re: package for security advice Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins@tarcanfel.org> - 2020-03-08 00:20 +0100
  Re: package for security advice Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2020-03-07 20:10 +0100

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