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From: "Daniel A. Avelino" <daavelino@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-security@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] No GLSA since January?!?
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:22:40 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKdB2xGRm6XK4cNCF9+=s2hYRsTy=nE_8aX1_XRMsXDCbFWO7g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Alex Legler <a3li@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Friday 26 August 2011 14:18:20 Daniel A. Avelino wrote:
> > Alex.
> >
> > May be a call for volunteers more "intense" could improve the manpower.
> This
> > could be a more
> > easy start point to address, no?.
>
> Well, the staffing needs page IS the point for making such calls. It's not
> that we haven't had people contacting us about helping, it's that they
> usually
> disappear shortly after that again after they've seen the tasks at hand.
>
> I know how it works!


> > I work too in some [smaller] security processes and can figure out what
> kind
> > of work are you talking about.
> >
> > As Kauhaus pointed, may be somethings should be automated but again, this
> is
> > a hard job to
> > implement and to keep results trustable.
> >
>
> Automation is a key thing I've been introducing in the new tools and
> processes
> for sending advisories.
> I'd rather not focus on a temporary automated system however, knowing that
> we're about to get back to the/near the status quo.
>
> When I think about automation, I had in mind something that could help
developers to find
vulnerabilities in a more fast way [searching and confronting CVE, for
example] and  start a
"call for solution" process. I work with solutions of this type for WEB
vulnerabilities discover
and some tools are very interesting to reduce the correction time.

By the way, I will start to read about what a Padawan should know instead of

make speculations prematurelly. :D

Thank you very much for the explanations.

Daniel A. Avelino

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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-26 16:12 [gentoo-security] No GLSA since January?!? Christian Kauhaus
2011-08-26 16:43 ` Christoph Jasinski
2011-08-26 16:57   ` JD Horelick
2011-08-26 17:18     ` Daniel A. Avelino
2011-08-26 17:57       ` Alex Legler
2011-08-26 18:22         ` Daniel A. Avelino [this message]
2011-08-26 18:44           ` Alex Legler
2011-08-26 19:27             ` Daniel A. Avelino
2011-08-26 16:55 ` Alex Legler
2011-08-26 17:06   ` Christian Kauhaus
2011-08-26 18:00     ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-26 18:07       ` Alex Legler
2011-08-26 19:30         ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-26 18:08     ` Kevin Bryan
2011-08-26 18:40       ` Alex Legler
2011-08-26 20:02         ` Kevin Bryan
2011-08-26 20:40           ` Daniel A. Avelino
2011-08-26 22:27           ` Alex Legler
2011-08-26 23:38             ` Daniel A. Avelino
2011-08-26 18:41       ` Daniel A. Avelino
2011-08-27  8:49       ` Christian Kauhaus
2011-08-27 12:13         ` Rich Freeman
2011-08-27 12:34           ` Tobias Heinlein
2011-08-27 13:06             ` Rich Freeman
2011-08-27 13:34               ` Tobias Heinlein

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