Secure Developer-Containers - Don't Fear Opening Files from the Bugtracker

Speaker: Moritz Duge

Track: MiniDebConf Hamburg

Type: Short talk

Room: Dock Europe Seminarraum

Time: May 03 (Sat): 17:45

Duration: 0:20

Have you ever though about the security perspective when opening a user’s example file from the Bugtracker? Maybe to bisect some issue, involving old software versions with known vulnerabilities. If yes, you may be interested in this talk. If no, you should definitely listen to this talk.

A programmer’s tasks are often so complex, that he or she doesn’t even start thinking about the security of his own machine while developing. Unfortunately there are plenty of security risks when developing. Fortunately Debian today has all the tools needed to solve this problem, and it doesn’t take much to put them to use. So lets discuss some easy solutions, which let you keep your focus on the your work. And by the way, you’ll gain well defined environments to reproduce issues and keep your host OS clean from development and testing setting.