Re: Email based attack on University
On 2019-10-08, Keith Bainbridge <ke1th3216@gmail.com> wrote:
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> So I put noexec under the heading of it may deter somebody who is
> looking for easy targets.
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The seminal vector of the ANU attack (a concerted, determined, and
sophisticated affair that might very well have been carried out by state
operatives) was social (as in engineering); this could be considered a
clueful lesson--if only they were capable of receiving one--to those
system administrators positing the irrelevancy of human nature in these
technical matters.
Of course, we've already seen someone suggest here crippling modern
email (in a University setting!) to the point of bare-bones ascii text
communication with zero attachments; it is only a matter of time before
one of our brilliant members opines that the veritable solution to our
security concerns is the elimination of the human element altogether.
--
"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
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