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Can’t find out the flavor on any websites. It might be a custom one and I imagine sharing the info would be more of a security risk.

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It won’t be a security risk once it’s in use, IT across Germany will know within days of deployment. It will almost definitely be a modified version of some probably well known Linux.

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No sense in giving an adversary info on the distro before it’s fully implemented though I imagine. (I would consider that a head-start even if they heavily modify a popular distro)

Giving the See👁️Aye advanced notice wouldn’t be smart, no matter how they wanted to play it.

It won’t be a security risk once it’s in use

I agree

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I don’t think it really matters whether a potential adversary has a ‘head start’ all that much, security through obscurity doesn’t work super well when it’s going to be deployed to thousands of easily accessible devices anyway. It’d only just be a defense in depth, but even then meh. But it’s neither here nor there, they’ll do it whatever way they feel is best.

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