Re: Compromising Debian Repositories

2013-08-03 Thread Robert Tomsick
On 08/03/13 13:36, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Volker Birk (v...@pibit.ch): > >> Really? >> >> How do you detect, if maintainer's patches contain backdoors? If I would >> want to attack Debian, I would try to become the maintainer of one of >> the most harmless, most used packages. And believe me,

Re: Paxtest results with default Grsec2 aren't impressive

2011-09-13 Thread Robert Tomsick
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 22:47 +0200, Kees de Jong wrote: > I've been running my Debian machines with Grsec2 (package: > "linux-patch-grsecurity2") for a long time. > I thought that would keep me rather save, but I've ran Paxtest today > (which is in the Debian repository only available for i386...) >

Re: some feedback about security from the user's point of view

2011-01-23 Thread Robert Tomsick
On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 19:32 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > Also, a discussion could be started with SPI to see if they are > willing to purchase a CA cert. That would at least allow users with > implicit trust in the CA system to get a nice fuzzy feeling when they > see the lock icon when down

Re: some feedback about security from the user's point of view

2011-01-23 Thread Robert Tomsick
On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 19:34 +0200, AK wrote: > a small disclaimer first, I am not affiliated with debian in any way, > I am, as the original author would have put it a user. The same goes for me, so I suppose my remarks should be taken with a comparably-sized grain of salt. :) That said: > 1)

Re: Fwd: Fwd: question regarding verification of a debian installation iso

2011-01-03 Thread Robert Tomsick
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 08:19 -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > > > How much do you trust your USB drive? It could have a malicious > > controller that detects when the correct Fedora files are written to > > it, and replaces with hacked copies. And when you try to verify the