Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream
Le 27/09/2014 01:08, Ric Moore a écrit :
> On 09/26/2014 05:08 PM, green wrote:
>> Ric Moore wrote at 2014-09-26 14:18 -0500:
>>> Change is certainly needed when any pimple face kid can edit and
>>> hide his
>>> doings from a text log with nano. I think the change is necessary to
>>> harden
>>> up our systems. Otherwise, Microsoft will become the only secure
>>> server OS,
>>> as they don't mind hiding things at all.
>>
>> So, all other things being equal, binary logs are more secure than
>> plain text logs. Is that actually what you are saying?
>
> Yes. The benefit of using a binary log is the lesser vulnerability to
> an external attack from an intruder. That huge security flaw was
> mentioned on a recent PBS video regarding the new day Hackers and how
> simply they removed/edited text-log files to hide their tracks of what
> they did.
That's completely false. Binary or text can be modified just as easily.
You just use some other tool.
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