Grsecurity Developer Spender's Feelings on the State of Linux Security
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Re: Grsecurity Developer Spender's Feelings on the State of Linux Security
#2Well there is no Linux security.
L4 provides that.
Re: Grsecurity Developer Spender's Feelings on the State of Linux Security
#3This is the Washington Post interview he wrote this for: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/11/05/net-of-...
Source: https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/662393322699415554
> Very fair article on the topic of Linux security: [...] … Was a pleasure talking with @craigtimberg
Re: Grsecurity Developer Spender's Feelings on the State of Linux Security
#4See also this story: https://grsecurity.net/announce.php.
Re: Grsecurity Developer Spender's Feelings on the State of Linux Security
#5The Gentoo Hardened Project makes using grsec/PaX relatively easy. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened
Re: Grsecurity Developer Spender's Feelings on the State of Linux Security
#6This is the Washington Post interview he wrote this for: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/11/05/net-of-... Source: https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/662393322699415554 > Very fair article on the topic of Linux security: [...] … Was a pleasure talking with @craigtimberg
The comments in the HN submission must be some new record in middlebrow dismissals.
Re: Grsecurity Developer Spender's Feelings on the State of Linux Security
#7Mother of all pissing matches...
Re: Grsecurity Developer Spender's Feelings on the State of Linux Security
#8That looks like a political problem. Maybe the state should fund security for its citizens - maybe we need some new kind of institutions to do this.
Re: Grsecurity Developer Spender's Feelings on the State of Linux Security
#9The Gentoo Hardened Project makes using grsec/PaX relatively easy. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened
Anyone that is curious about grsec and comfortable installing a gentoo overlay would have no problem installing grsec on their own; especially if gentoo was not their normal distro. You are not doing anyone any favors by making grsec look like a Sisyphean task without gentoo.
Re: Grsecurity Developer Spender's Feelings on the State of Linux Security
#10The Gentoo Hardened Project makes using grsec/PaX relatively easy. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened
Arch Linux has a working out-of-the-box config too. The guy who contributed it to Arch Linux is Daniel Micay, who was also quoted in the WaPo article.