adrelanos: > How secure is a Debian installation packages installed only from main, > none from contrib or non-free? > > It will lack for example the firmware-linux-nonfree package and the > intel-microcode / amd-microcode package. At least the microcode one is > security relevant? Are there any other packages which might be important > to have installed for security reasons? > > I mean, how secure is it in comparison with those packages installed vs > not having them installed? > >
I apologize, I didn't want to start a discussion of Open Source vs closed source. (Feel free to have it, I am delighted to read your thoughts on it, but I'd be also happy about an answer to the question I meant to ask but failed to properly state.) Sorry for not asking clear in the first place. To rephrase my original question: How vulnerable is Debian installation without intel-microcode / amd-microcode package? Are there other contrib and/or non-free packages, similar to the microcode package, which make the system vulnerable, if not installed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
