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StrongSwan detected on my Raspberry Pi without having installed it myself. in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] Mia@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The strongswan installation itself doesn't seem to be malicous.

It looks like these packages were installed via the apt repositories: strongswan-starter
strongswan-libcharon
strongswan-charon
libstrongswan

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StrongSwan detected on my Raspberry Pi without having installed it myself. (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Mia@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have just seen that StrongSwan is installed and the service is enabled on my Raspberry Pi. But I have never used Strongswan before. Is there any way to research when it was installed? I just use the Raspi for OMV 5 with Portainer and various Docker containers. Should I be concerned that the package is installed without my active action?

EDIT:

I did some further investigation and found this commands in my .bash_history. This was approximately one year ago. Maybe I wanted to test something that I cannot remember. But interesting that despite those apt purge commands strongswan was still installed and running.

sudo apt install strongswan
sudo apt install strongswan-pki
sudo apt install libstrongswan-extra-plugins
sudo apt purge strongswan
sudo apt purge strongswan-pki
sudo apt purge libstrongswan-extra-plugins

Mastodon? in c/technology@beehaw.org

[–] Mia@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

It definitely is worth it. In terms of the number of users, it certainly cannot be compared with Twitter. Measured in terms of interaction, meaningful exchange and a nice community, it is worlds better than Twitter.

There are topic-oriented instances, e.g. for cybersecurity (https://infosec.exchange/). But of course you can follow people from other instances through the federation. The advantage of topic-oriented instances is that you have a local timeline on which all posts of your instance appear.