Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Tue Oct 04 2011 - 03:15:20 EST


On Mon, 3 Oct 2011, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> By the way, I'm now pretty convinced that allowing inbound ssh on
> laptops (which is the default on all the mainline Linux distros as far
> as I know) is seriously broken... laptops get connected to *extremely*
> insecure networks on just way too regular a basis.

Well, not all mainline Linux distributions do this. opensuse, to name one
example, by default does not start sshd (and there have been quite some
flames when this has been introduced :) ).

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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