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Lähettäjä: Roy Nielsen
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Aihe: Re: [Dng] Please!! revive Bastille hardening tool for Devuan
I don't believe the task is impossible, I'm sure there are people
working on such a tool and perhaps they will even open source it!

Regards,
-Roy

On 2/11/2015 11:01 AM, Jack L. Frost wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 08:55:07AM -0500, Gravis wrote:
>> wow. congrats on being highly offensive on your very first post.
>>
>> anyway, i looked at Bastille and it's a highly tweaked script and
>> headed toward being a decade out of date. frankly i'm not surprised
>> it was dropped. Linux security needs an overhaul but your bastille
>> script is off mark.
>>
>> --Gravis
> While “it's old” is not really an argument, I tend to agree that Bastille is
> not something anyone should waste their time on, and that's for the simple
> reason of it being a script that tries to magically make your system more
> secure, which is:
> 1) Impossible to solve in a general sense.
> 2) Creating a false sense of security.
> 3) Hell to maintain if you actually try to accomplish the assumed goal.
>
> Security is a delicate thing, you should never rely on magical solutions.
> Instead, learn linux, learn security, implement the needed levels of security
> yourself.
> That, or pay an infosec specialist. Don't run magic scripts.
>
>
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