Thread: FOSS Maemo for high security
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michaaa62 is offline michaaa62
2012-08-31 , 07:47
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#7
Is there something like 'Whistling in the dark forest' saying in English? Anyway, you are luring yourself in wrong security:
Maybe you could fall generic attacks (like flash based, because we don't have official java ), that sometimes impact linux as well, but it shouldn't be worse than your average desktop.
Basically flash on the N900 is ancient and insecure, the kernel is also unmaintained since ages, Java is a hack for the N900 and not fixed or maintained, openssh is version 5.1xxx, while the PC has 6.0 in Debian based Linux ( raising major version in linux is never done without a reason! )

Did you ever read the comment
TEXT="rootsh is now deprecated for it poses too much of a security risk. However, you can still obtain a root shell by running the commands 'root' or 'sudo gainroot'."
echo $TEXT
in /usr/bin/rootsh, nevertheless the command stays there!
 

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