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> Point being, it's fun to hate on systemd, and maybe even hipster-like, and systemd is hardly perfect... but you are probably more likely to be exploited by a
by lmm 5mo ago
> Point being, it's fun to hate on systemd, and maybe even hipster-like, and systemd is hardly perfect... but you are probably more likely to be exploited by a pypi or npm supply-chain attack.
Can you even imagine pypi or npm compromising ssh this way?
- k_roy 5mo ago> Can you even imagine pypi or npm compromising ssh this way? Is ssh somehow sacrosanct in a way that any other RCE or credential stealing attack is different? I don’t even know the last time I exposed ssh to the open internet. But the fact with npm or pypi you can be exploited just by running the software you’ve already installed because the dependencies are everywhere on your system?
- lmm 5mo ago> Is ssh somehow sacrosanct in a way that any other RCE or credential stealing attack is different? I see ssh as a very fundamental part of the system - in BSD terms it's in base not ports. Random packages from npm or pypi, sure, if you installed some slop off the internet and got exploited that's not so surprising. (Even those package managers themselves are not part of the base system, much less anything you install with them). But ssh should be safe!