libsafe and Debian installation
Debian provides a nice little library called libsafe. While libsafe
isn't perfect, it does provide a real measurable level of security
against buffer overflow attacks. It's also very easy to install (all
one does is install the package and put the library in
/etc/ld.so.preload)
Is there any good reason why an install of Debian should not ask the
user if they want to install libsafe, and give them reasons why they
would want to, and possibly not want to (overhead....)
There are probably some other packages that also provide some real
security, in a very easy to do manner that we should give users the
option of using. Just having the package available doesn't make users
aware of it.
wondering what other people think,
shaya
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