Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry [LWN.net]

Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry

Posted Jul 9, 2023 15:35 UTC (Sun) by drago01 (subscriber, #50715)
In reply to: Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry by mips
Parent article: Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry

Security by obscurity doesn't work.

The solution to uninstalled security patches is to actually install them.

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Posted Jul 9, 2023 18:38 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (2 responses)

> Security by obscurity doesn't work.

But security by obscurity IS another line of defence.

I wouldn't rely on it, but if it's available I'll use it!

Cheers,
Wol

Posted Jul 10, 2023 7:14 UTC (Mon) by drago01 (subscriber, #50715) [Link] (1 responses)

No it really isn't.

Exploits are simply tried out, if you are vulnerable you will get attacked.

If there are known security vulnerabilities with available patches, the patches must be applied ASAP.

Posted Jul 10, 2023 8:53 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Which is why I left out the line about "unpatched vulnerabilities".

I'm a database guy. But I don't worry about Bobby Tables because the SELECT verb behaves in a completely unexpected (to the naive attacker) way.

I just have to worry about other things instead :-)

Cheers,
Wol