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| From: | Martin Vaeth <vaeth@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | [gentoo-dev] Re: Improve the security of the default profile | ||
| Date: | Sat, 07 Sep 2013 18:25:04 | ||
| Message-Id: | slrnl2mrqa.4r2.vaeth@lounge.imp.fu-berlin.de | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Improve the security of the default profile by Ciaran McCreesh |
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| 1 | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
| 2 | > |
| 3 | > Security does not come from the compiler. There is no compiler flag |
| 4 | > that magically makes insecure code secure. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | But there are flags which can catch some frequent code bugs which |
| 7 | perhaps some less careful upstream overlooked or is not aware of. |
| 8 | Moreover, the flags can cause some code bugs to have less impact |
| 9 | on the security of the system as a whole. |