Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:40:05 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: ext4 features |
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:00:38 EDT, Bill Davidsen said: > > >>Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: >> >> > > > >>>There's other issues as well. Why do people run 'tripwire' on boxes that >>>have RAID on them? >>> >>> >>What has RAID got to do with detecting hacking? >> >> > >Actually, I've had tripwire detect more *accidental* changes due to buggy >software than I have had it detect actual hacking. Oh, and it's good at >catching unintended config changes - I started using tripwire after I >fat-fingered a script, and the machine backed up to /dev/null instead of >/dev/rmt0. > > But it ran faster, right? ;-)
>In fact, I've never actually had tripwire detect actual hacking. > > I was using hacking in the general sense, I have a spiffy quote around about being in more danger from incompetence than malice. Patches with side effects, changes which work but reset directory permissions and/or ownership... I think it was Pogo who said "we have met the enemy and he is us."
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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