alt Hacker News> FROM scratch just reduces the surface.
The actual attack surface of your application? Or the attack surface of you and your team's attention from a busybody security org.
It's important not to confuse the two.
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monkpit • today at 3:57 AM
Important to whom?
Both. Many attacks take the form of an exploit to get a shell, then using available utilities to exploit the kernel to escape to the host. If your image has neither a shell nor utilities that won't get very far.