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SubjectRe: More file flags
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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