build-essential

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 09:26:20AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> ... aha. That said, I would strongly suggest that 'secure by default' means
> 'no compilers for the script kiddies'. Let's not do this, it freaks me out.

*groan*

Removing the compiler only creates a marginal amount of extra work for an
attacker who will just upload or download their own binaries or find another
way around it, while the other 99.9% of people using the system are
needlessly inconvenienced.

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 - mdz