[arch-general] ALSTF (Arch Linux Security Task Force)?

[Allan McRae]

On 12/06/10 19:06, Marek Kozlowski wrote:
> :-)
>
> I've found such a topic when browsing the Wiki:
>
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Security_Task_Force
>
> Well, sound like a very smart idea. IMHO it's a thing that makes a
> distro more 'prestigious' -- it's quite difficult to convince someone to
> using a distro for something more than just a testing workstation if
> it's security is, let's say... 'unknown'. Unfortunately there *are* some
> regressions in the upstream that make the latest stable releases
> vulnerable. In fact it's the main reason that prevents my faculty from
> switching from Gentoo and log-time compilations to simple and KISS-ing
> Arch. Any work toward ALSTF in the recent past?

Nope...  there has been a lot of talk but nothing ever comes of it 
(apart from a wiki page it seems!).

Allan