[Apparmor-dev] armoring the network access

Markku Savela msa at moth.iki.fi
Mon Sep 3 06:05:01 MDT 2007


> Hmmm. I don't have any other ideas. The security significance of a
> network rule is so context dependent.
> 
>     * "Can accept from" is much more dangerous from the internet than
>       from some restricted address, but that's likely beyond vim's
>       parsing ability, and we don't yet have addresses in this release.
>     * "Can initiate connection" is perfectly safe in a client (Firefox)
>       and very dangerous in a server (Apache) but how would vim know
>       which a profile is?
>     * ... etc. etc.

I'm jumping into middle of discussion, so I might be expressing
opinions that have already been discussed to the death, but here is
some jumble of thoughts ....



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