From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: should auto updaters be disabled?
Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 17:00:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200229220048.GA29536@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200229204117.GA2494@LionPure>
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 09:41:17PM +0100, Bengt Richter wrote:
> IMO auto-update is like buying an appliance and giving
> the install crew a permanent key to the kitchen door.
I don't think this metaphor is wrong, but it's not very exact. Short of
auditing every single line of code in a package, and skillfully
detecting obfuscated malware, all of our packages may try to download
and execute software at run-time. It's just the nature of computers with
network access.
In any case, it's extremely unlikely that a package autoupdater will
work in Guix because they usually target the executable's directory and
that is read-only in /gnu/store. But we should still try to disable them
as a matter of Guix policy.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-29 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-26 19:15 should auto updaters be disabled? raingloom
2020-02-28 16:44 ` Arun Isaac
2020-02-28 19:47 ` Leo Famulari
2020-02-29 20:41 ` Bengt Richter
2020-02-29 22:00 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
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