Stability and Release Cycles - An Idea

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Dec 23 16:54:33 UTC 2008


Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> But, how many things have big security risks anyway?  In most cases
>> the ones to worry about are just the kernel, network daemons, and suid
>> programs - mostly things with standardized interfaces so backing up a
>> version or two shouldn't break anything.
> 
> Any program that could be run by a privileged account (or even just any
> local account) to process data from an untrusted source is a security risk.
> 
> I.e., most everything in Fedora.

Are you suggesting that it is feasible to eliminate that risk?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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