Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Aug 1999 19:39:40 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: More file flags |
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On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 04:30:36PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > I thought a little bit about security, and IMHO it would be nice if those > script kiddies, when they can root my system (which I will probably never > be able to prevent), would not be able to read my secret keys.
You'd have to disallow them access to the raw block device too -- libe2fs makes it quite easy to run through the filesystem and get the data.
-- Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai> "Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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