Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream
Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 19:08:13 schrieb Ric Moore:
> 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.
I think I read on uselessd site, that rsyslog has a signing feature meanwhile.
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