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On 12/31/11 08:43, "Tóth Attila" wrote: |
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> Isn't it miserable to see, that as time is passing by, more and more |
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> important softwares (java, python, libreoffice, firefox) conflict |
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> with more and more PAX restrictions? I would expect exactly the |
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> opposite. But it seems, that developers become less and less aware |
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> (or care less) about security. |
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> Nowdays I would rather run libreoffice and firefox in a jail. But I |
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> have no time to set up an environment and grsec policy for it. |
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Heh...better yet; using VMs - with optional hardware assistance. |
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Joanna Rutkowska of <http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/> , who is |
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well-known as an effective white-hat cracker, is developing a "secure" |
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OS she calls Qubes <http://qubes-os.org/Home.html> |
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She's presently using fedora as the Linux source distribution, but |
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there's been a lot of enthusiastic discussion among some of the beta |
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testers about changing to Gentoo |
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<https://groups.google.com/group/qubes-devel/browse_thread/thread/588399cdd43da28c#> |
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and some of these guys seem poised to go for it. |
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Should the switch occur, one would painlessly have hardened Gentoo VMs, |
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managed by a XEN bare-metal hypervisor. |
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In the case of Firefox 9.0 (actually, now Firefox 9.0.1), one could |
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safely continue with Firefox 8.0 in temporary ("disposable") VMs 'til |
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the Gentoo developers (who are volunteers, generously donating personal |
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time) get a chance to address the issue. |
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