Re: making Debian secure by default
On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 5:07 PM Lee <ler762@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > A more proactive endeavor would be to document known best practices
> > on the wiki. A quick search found a couple pages that might serve
> > as starting points:
> >
> > https://wiki.debian.org/SecurityManagement
> > https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening -- says it's for package maintainers
> >
> > Anyone who is serious about such a project probably has a long road ahead
> > of them.
>
> Is there a generally preferred web link checker program for Debian?
> I took a look at
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-manual/ch04s15.en.html
> and the 4.15. Protecting against buffer overflows section has this bit:
> recompile the source code to introduce proper checks that prevent
> overflows, using the
> http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/ patch for GCC
> (which is used by
> http://www.adamantix.org)
>
> http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/ patch gives me
> a connect failed and
> http://www.adamantix.org sends me to a vietnamese tv site??
>
> Seems to me that an easy first step would be to check that all the
> links still work.
Wikipedia changes links to the Wayback Machine once a link goes bad.
Jeff
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