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hiou on Feb 6, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Docker Official Images Are Moving to Alpine Linux

From the article > 2. Security is improved as the image has a smaller footprint thus making the attack surface also smaller

Not saying you need to agree with that. But that does appear to be at least an "indication"

jmspring on Feb 6, 2016 [–]

Image footprint has nothing to do with the packages installed in that image.

This is complete hogwash from a security point of view.

Yes "smaller" could = "more secure", but, yeah, no.

nickpsecurity on Feb 6, 2016 | [–]

Remind them that DOS was pretty small. Must be way more secure than Linux due to reduced attack surface. ;)

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