1. Avoid packages with security problems. Harden-3rdflaws is intended to help the administrator to avoid packages that are known to give 3rd parties (like connected web browsers or similar) problems in form of insecure code. If you want to avoid packages that remote users can use to compromise the system you should look at the harden-remoteflaws instead. If you want to avoid packages that local users can use to compromise the system you should look at the harden-localflaws instead. NOTE! This package will not make the 3rd party host uncrackable, and it is not inteded to do so. From Debian 3.0r0 APT