Security features

[Rahul Sundaram]

Dawid Gajownik wrote:

> Hi!
>
>     I've been reading recently lwn.net and I've found this article → 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/160380/ I knew about this patch restricting 
> acces to /dev/mem but I did not know that it prevents rootkits! IMHO 
> this should be mentioned in the Release Notes:
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/test1-latest-en/#sn-security 
>
>
>     Actually, there should be more hype about Fedora's security 
> features¹. For instance, FC5 uses Stack Smashing Protector. I think 
> that it's worth mentioning it in the Announcement of Fedora Core 5². 

Fstack-protector is already mentioned in 
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/test1-latest-en/#sn-security.  
I will include more comprehensive information about the other security 
features to the wiki and link from the release notes - 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Security. Could highlight such 
overviews better in further announcements.  You are already in the edit 
group for the Fedora wiki. If you want to include such information 
yourself see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WikiEditing

Thank you for bringing this up to the list.


regards
Rahul