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[dave AT sourcemage.org]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:59:13AM +0200, Thomas Houssin wrote:
> Eric Sandall wrote:
> > Shall we initiate a vote for the new Security Team Leader then? The 
> > following
> > people have been nominated, can we get seconds on any of them and then 
> > I'll
> > start the vote later this week:
> >   Thomas Houssin
> > 
> > Any other nominations before the voting starts?
> > 
> > Keep in mind our Voting Rules[0]. ;)
> > 
> > -sandalle
> > 
> > [0] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=Team+Lead+Voting+Process
> > 
> 
> OK then a few words about me : my name's Thomas, 23. I'm french,
> currently finishing my studies (computer and network, major security).
> The security field I'll work on are the one Seth described (mostly
> security updates, security-related areas in Sorcery,...).
> 
> I also would like to start a hardened SM project (we talked about this
> idea a few days ago) : adding additional options/spells to the distro to
> use the various patches and programs improving security, for example to
> prevent buffer overflow attacks or add ACL support, and document them.
> About documentations, I'd like also to begin some kind of guide to
> describe steps and programs config to have a secure base install (PAM,
> which Arjan already volunteered to write on ;) , iptables, ...).
> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Houssin

Thomas has my vote.

--dave.

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