On Thursday 16 Jun 2016 15:27:29 James wrote:
> José Maldonado <josemald89 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > The last days, ArsTechnica publish this new:
> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/goodbye-apt-and-yum-ub
> untus-snap-apps-are-coming-to-distros-everywhere/
> > "Snaps now work natively on Arch, Debian, Fedora, Kubuntu, Lubuntu,
> > Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu,"
> > Canonical's announcement says. "They are currently being validated on
> > CentOS, Elementary, Gentoo, Mint, OpenSUSE, OpenWrt and RHEL, and are
> > easy to enable on other Linux distributions." (Ubuntu will continue to
> > support deb packages, but developers can choose to package applications
> > as snaps instead of or in addition to debs.)"
> > 
> > Gentoo is supporting officially Snap packages? Why not Flatpak?
> > 
> > Thank you very much for your responses! Bye! :)
> 
> One word SECURITY?  Trust but verify does come to mind.

Keylogger in a snap anyone?


> Containers are not exactly the most secure apparatus, imho.
> "Clair is an open source project for the static analysis of vulnerabilities
> in appc and docker containers." [1]. So, I want to hear about the robustness
> of the security on these 'self containerd packages.
> What exactly creates the codes necessary for the container ?
> 
> Is their a version that works on gentoo-hardened?
> 
> Suggestions for firewalling off a system for routine, deep examination
> and profiling of port activities, would be most welcome. Prima facia,
> I just have no trust in wonderful ideas from the *buntu crowd, ymmv.
> 
> Also, it's a really good idea; now maybe *DALE* can get his security
> VM, in a snap (snapple?, snapit?, snapper?), that is gentoo-hardened
> blessed? Maybe the snhap designation for secured (Hardeded) snaps?
> Maybe if it's a hardened, entertainment (video snap) we call them schnapps?
> 
> I've been bantering about for a couple of years now how clusters (hpc and
> containers) are going to change everything. Security is the main obstacle
> now.  You know, I'm ready to sip this Kool_aid and ponder the
> possibilities....
> 
> Were are all the security gurus on at on snaps? Do snaps require systemd
> or are they PID-1 agnostic?
> 
> 
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [1] https://github.com/coreos/clair

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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