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Re: Security: How we did it

From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>
> Also security holes should not be discussed in public as has been done
> with the dosemu issue.

Debian policy says "no security through obscurity". In part this is to
encourage us to fix the problems as fast as they come up. I do agree
that they should be discussed on debian-private, but we can't guarantee
that the nasty people don't have access to this information.

> Of course we dont run dosemu or similar dangerous software on the Shell
> Server. You are crazy if you do.

This is a fine policy for a campus. Unfortunately many of our users only
have space and funds for one computer. Note that one of the key 68k developers
will leave that port because he got a 386 and doesn't have room for the Amiga
any longer.

Christoph, I understand that you don't want to deal with these security
problems. However I don't feel its a good idea for the project as a whole
to take a lassez-faire (pardon my spelling) attitude toward them.

In the case of dosemu, it should be passed to another maintainer who can
perform a thorough security review, as soon as we can find such a person.
I understand it may have some serious privilege issues because it can provide
direct access to hardware, bypassing Linux.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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Bruce Perens K6BP   Bruce@Pixar.com

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