Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

[Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@yahoo.co.uk>]

previously on this list Michael Tautschnig contributed:

> > Riding the Heartbleed publicity wave seems unwise, unless you can
> > propose a hardening flag that would have protected users from
> > Heartbleed. Else, Heartbleed merely serves on a example
> > how wallpapering problems over with "hardened" binaries often
> > doesn't help you at all..
> >   
> 
> +100 on this one. Hardening may be nice, but wouldn't have helped at all w.r.t.
> Heartbleed (or any of the other recent SSL/TLS issues).

I am afraid you have this completely backwards. You can't use idiotic
programming to justify anything.

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=139715715931884&w=2

I am glad they are cleaning OpenSSL up 

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140418063443

Especially when what they have found is "very surprising"

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I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists
because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on
Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool
to help psychopaths learn to control their anger.

(Kevin Chadwick)

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