Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-18 Thread Stanislav Bocinec
sorry, here's proper link to the presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_kTBIZLoT3VOGOFgTqjkQ3E0e4o_esV71RNzo4JuQI0/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000#slide=id.ge4adadaf_1_645 s. On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Stanislav Bocinec wrote: > Thanks for the nice comparison. I n

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-18 Thread Stanislav Bocinec
Thanks for the nice comparison. I never realized Debian main consists of so many packages, i always considered default ubuntu intallation not so secure due to universe repo enabled by default.. Here is one interesting presentation about Ubuntu trusty 14.04 security features: http://blog.dustinkirk

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-18 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Sunday, 2014-05-18 at 14:46:21 +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Ubuntu only provides security support for the "main" and "restricted" > archive sections: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ#Official_Support > But since the "universe" section is enabled by default, you'll end up > with a l

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-18 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
herzogbrigit...@t-online.de schrieb: > Hello there, > I'm a new user of the great Debian distro for my Desktop. But when I talked > to a friend and I told him, that I'm using Debian (Wheezy) for my desktop > computer, he told me that I shoudn't use it because it is not secure. He told > me to u

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread stoffl4ever
On 17.05.2014 21:33, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Joel Rees dijo [Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:06:41PM +0900]: >>> The problem is, that Debian lacks a page similar to: >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features >> Is that page really useful? I mean, besides as a sort of sales brochure? > Agree with this. It

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Joel Rees dijo [Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:06:41PM +0900]: > > The problem is, that Debian lacks a page similar to: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features > > Is that page really useful? I mean, besides as a sort of sales brochure? Agree with this. It would be nice to have such a page, but ha

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread Richard van den Berg
Emmanuel Thierry wrote On 17-05-14 18:37: Isn't it a better idea to use local entropy generators such as haveged instead of online ones ? Haveged is great, but IMHO it cannot replace a hardware PRNG. I'm quite disturbed about using a online (and moreover third-party) service to improve secu

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread Richard van den Berg
Joel Rees wrote On 17-05-14 18:20: Hmm. Early boot has problems getting enough randomness (for what?), To seed the kernel random number generator. so let's go get some randomness from a server somebody in the Ubuntu project set up. I never said it was a great solution, but the lack of good

Re: Dedicated admin account (was Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu)

2014-05-17 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Sven Bartscher wrote: > On Sun, 18 May 2014 01:36:44 +0900 > Joel Rees wrote: > >> >> There are more reasons than the X11 hole to refrain from using your >> >> admin user to surf the web. >> > >> > Just out of curiosity, what are these reasons? >> >> Your browser

Re: Dedicated admin account (was Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu)

2014-05-17 Thread Franz Brandl
Lucky you, but not everyone, especially outside of Germany, has access to secure technology for banking. On 17. Mai 2014 19:03:41 MESZ, Sven Bartscher wrote: >On Sat, 17 May 2014 18:57:35 +0200 >Franz Brandl wrote: > >> May be off topic, but IMO one should use an OS booted from DVD or >write

Re: Dedicated admin account (was Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu)

2014-05-17 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Sat, 17 May 2014 18:57:35 +0200 Franz Brandl wrote: > May be off topic, but IMO one should use an OS booted from DVD or write > protected USB Stick for online banking. Assuming that no remote attacker can plug my HBCI-cardreader into the USB-HUB, I think that is not necessary. > On 17. Mai

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread Erwan David
Le 17/05/2014 18:38, Jan Moskyto Matejka a écrit : >> I might be misinterpreting your definition of "meaningful", but I >> have been looking for a public entropy source for my Debian system >> for quite a while. If you can point me to the Debian equivalent of >> pollinate and https://entropy.ubuntu

Re: Dedicated admin account (was Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu)

2014-05-17 Thread Franz Brandl
May be off topic, but IMO one should use an OS booted from DVD or write protected USB Stick for online banking. On 17. Mai 2014 18:50:42 MESZ, Sven Bartscher wrote: >On Sun, 18 May 2014 01:36:44 +0900 >Joel Rees wrote: > >> >> There are more reasons than the X11 hole to refrain from using >yo

Dedicated admin account (was Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu)

2014-05-17 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Sun, 18 May 2014 01:36:44 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > >> There are more reasons than the X11 hole to refrain from using your > >> admin user to surf the web. > > > > Just out of curiosity, what are these reasons? > > Your browser and any plugins, addons, etc. that it loads, including > java, fla

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread Emmanuel Thierry
Hello, Le 17 mai 2014 à 17:34, Richard van den Berg a écrit : > Joel Rees wrote On 17-05-14 03:19: >>> He gave me a link to the following site: >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features >> None of the meaningful items in that list are unavailable on Debian, and >> the defaults are reasonably

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread Jan Moskyto Matejka
> I might be misinterpreting your definition of "meaningful", but I > have been looking for a public entropy source for my Debian system > for quite a while. If you can point me to the Debian equivalent of > pollinate and https://entropy.ubuntu.com/ that would be highly > appreciated. To transport

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 1:24 AM, Sven Bartscher wrote: > On Sun, 18 May 2014 01:09:06 +0900 > Joel Rees wrote: > >> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Sven Bartscher >> wrote: >> > On Sat, 17 May 2014 11:44:56 + >> > Patrick Schleizer wrote: >> > >> >> After reading the following blog post >

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Sun, 18 May 2014 01:09:06 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Sven Bartscher > wrote: > > On Sat, 17 May 2014 11:44:56 + > > Patrick Schleizer wrote: > > > >> After reading the following blog post > >> > >> http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.fr/2011/04/linux-securi

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Reid Sutherland wrote: >>> >>> That's a good list of all the currently fashionable "security" >>> features for Linux. Some of the items in the list are meaningful, >>> some are not. Most might be if you know what you are doing with them. >>> None of the meaningful

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Richard van den Berg wrote: > Joel Rees wrote On 17-05-14 03:19: >>> >>> He gave me a link to the following site: >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features >> >> None of the meaningful items in that list are unavailable on Debian, and >> >> the defaults are re

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Sven Bartscher wrote: > On Sat, 17 May 2014 11:44:56 + > Patrick Schleizer wrote: > >> After reading the following blog post >> >> http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.fr/2011/04/linux-security-circus-on-gui-isolation.html >> >> it seems to me, that user accoun

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread Joel Rees
Heh. I took the bait on this one. On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Patrick Schleizer wrote: > Joel Rees: >>> He told me to use Ubuntu instead. He explained that with the fact, >>> that Ubuntu has more security features enabled than Debian (also >>> more compiler flags for security) in a fresh ins

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread Richard van den Berg
Joel Rees wrote On 17-05-14 03:19: He gave me a link to the following site: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features None of the meaningful items in that list are unavailable on Debian, and the defaults are reasonably secure in Debian. I might be misinterpreting your definition of "meaningfu

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
> The problem is, that Debian lacks a page similar to: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features > > As you can see, that https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features page > looks impressive to new users. I guess Debian is losing a few users to > Ubuntu, because Debian does not have such a page. Mo

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread Reid Sutherland
>> >> That's a good list of all the currently fashionable "security" >> features for Linux. Some of the items in the list are meaningful, >> some are not. Most might be if you know what you are doing with them. >> None of the meaningful items in that list are unavailable on Debian, >> and the def

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Sat, 17 May 2014 11:44:56 + Patrick Schleizer wrote: > After reading the following blog post > > http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.fr/2011/04/linux-security-circus-on-gui-isolation.html > > it seems to me, that user account level isolation isn't very strong. A very helpful link. I wasn

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Patrick Schleizer wrote: > Joel Rees: >>> He told me to use Ubuntu instead. He explained that with the fact, >>> that Ubuntu has more security features enabled than Debian (also >>> more compiler flags for security) in a fresh install. He gave me a >>> link to the

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-17 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Joel Rees: >> He told me to use Ubuntu instead. He explained that with the fact, >> that Ubuntu has more security features enabled than Debian (also >> more compiler flags for security) in a fresh install. He gave me a >> link to the following site: >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features >>

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-16 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:38 AM, herzogbrigit...@t-online.de wrote: > Hello there, > I'm a new user of the great Debian distro for my Desktop. But when I talked > to a friend and I told him, that I'm using Debian (Wheezy) for my desktop > computer, he told me that I shoudn't use it because it is

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-16 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Reid Sutherland wrote: > [response shifted to conversational format] > On May 16, 2014, at 3:38 PM, herzogbrigit...@t-online.de wrote: > >> Hello there, >> I'm a new user of the great Debian distro for my Desktop. But when I talked >> to a friend and I told him, t

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-16 Thread Reid Sutherland
From my view, Debian is designed to be flexible and does not impose any unnecessary features on the user. For this reason, I find it is best for new users to operate distributions that are more targeted to their needs. Distributions such as Ubuntu come with reasonable defaults for the market t

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-16 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 05/16/2014 04:11 PM, Riku Valli wrote: On 16.05.2014 22:38, herzogbrigit...@t-online.de wrote: Hello there, Hi There is some info https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#hardening http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/ubuntu-and-debian https://

Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu

2014-05-16 Thread Riku Valli
On 16.05.2014 22:38, herzogbrigit...@t-online.de wrote: > Hello there, Hi There is some info https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#hardening http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/ubuntu-and-debian https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianImportFreeze Practica