“The Trusted Debian project aims to create a highly secure but
usable Linux platform. To accomplish this, the project will use
currently available security solutions for Linux (like kernel
patches, compiler patches, security related programs and
techniques) and knit these together to a highly secure Linux
platform.“The main focus of release 1.0 has been on fixing many (but not
all) buffer overflow problems. Buffer overflows have been a popular
way to break system security for years. A large portion of the
Linux exploits found on the Internet today involve buffer
overflows.“Trusted Debian is the first project to add this kind of
protection to a major Linux distribution. There is no other UNIX
system which adds the same kind of protection against buffer
overflows and at the same time protects against some less
well-known or even some unknown problems…”
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Weeekly News – March 25, 2003(Mar 27, 2003)