On 2/22/22 16:47, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Demi Marie Obenour <demioben...@gmail.com> said: >> As mentioned above, the purpose of this change is to ensure that >> vulnerabilities in obscure protocols impact a smaller fraction of >> users. Right now, a vulnerability in an obscure protocol impacts >> most users. With this change, it will only impact users that have >> installed the full version of curl. This is independent of whether a >> given protocol should be disabled outright. > > I just feel that if there's enough security concern with some of the > code, then Fedora shouldn't ship that code. Either the code is secure > enough and maintained well enough to ship, or it's not. > > Otherwise, don't list this as a justification for the change proposal.
Secure enough to ship ≠ secure enough to enable by default. Every piece of attack surface that can be removed from the default install is helpful. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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