Re:SpaceVim – Like Spacemacs, but for Vim
by kelnos on Saturday January 07, 2017 @02:45PM
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> Strawman. If an amount of critical code is audited (and it is) it's still much better than nothing.
Is it, though? I'm specifically thinking about the Debian fiasco a few years ago when a packager broke OpenSSL's key generation. Clearly less scrutiny is paid than one might think. I'm unable to find any evidence/documentation/anything that suggests that code audits by Debian packagers of critical packages are done regularly (or ever).
I did find a few links to some Debian-specific tools to aid code auditing, but nothing to suggest where they're used, how often, and on what packages. Regardless, they look more like linters and static analyzers -- nothing that would help you discover backdoors or just flat-out malicious behavior.
> The packaging system check for files being overwritten...
Yes, I'm well aware, not sure why you're bringing this up. I was merely pointing out (regardless of any other argument being made) that file-clobbering is a reason why "curl | sh"-style installation bothers me, personally, much more than possible security considerations, which I consider to be overblown.
Is it, though? I'm specifically thinking about the Debian fiasco a few years ago when a packager broke OpenSSL's key generation. Clearly less scrutiny is paid than one might think. I'm unable to find any evidence/documentation/anything that suggests that code audits by Debian packagers of critical packages are done regularly (or ever).
I did find a few links to some Debian-specific tools to aid code auditing, but nothing to suggest where they're used, how often, and on what packages. Regardless, they look more like linters and static analyzers -- nothing that would help you discover backdoors or just flat-out malicious behavior.
> The packaging system check for files being overwritten...
Yes, I'm well aware, not sure why you're bringing this up. I was merely pointing out (regardless of any other argument being made) that file-clobbering is a reason why "curl | sh"-style installation bothers me, personally, much more than possible security considerations, which I consider to be overblown.