Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.sys.mac.system > #88234

Re: Network Pinger Stats.... Inadequate Management & Omissions...???

Cross-posted to 2 groups.

Show all headers | View raw

In article <cc7409e2bd67c7b03f55ff88409257d5@anemone.mooo.com>
Jeremy Bentham <nobody@anemone.mooo.com> wrote:
>
> Zax <admin@mixmin.net> wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 13:35:27 +0000 (GMT), Nathan Hale wrote in
> >Message-Id: <ed3305582ef1759b6f18befdd10e839f@remailer.org.uk>:
> >
> >>   Something that entails a much greater problem is intels possibly
> >>   breaking into remailer servers and confiscating the remailer keys.
> >>   Zax's is probably the only remailer that has some kind of key
> >>   encryption onboard his servers.  Wish there was some kind of info on
> >>   how to implement this.  Other than that, you would probably need to
> >>   completely lock down you Linux, allowing only remailers in.
> >
> >I put my remailer keys on an encrypted disc which is mounted with a
> >random key.  Reboot the server and the keys are lost.  Gaining access to
> >the Linux filesystem is easy if the server is rebooted into single-user
> >mode.  Any encrypted filesystem protects against that issue but the
> >random key makes it pretty obvious that coercion isn't going to help
> >get them back.
>
> Taking over a computer doesn't necessarily require it to be rebooted.

True.  I take over mac computers all the time when I have the 
need to engage in nefarious misdeeds.  I specifically target 
macs because there is a security hole that has existed for two 
decades, thru every new revision of OS, and it has never been 
fixed.

Back to comp.sys.mac.system | Previous | Next — Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Re: Network Pinger Stats.... Inadequate Management & Omissions...??? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2016-01-30 23:38 +0100
  Re: Network Pinger Stats.... Inadequate Management & Omissions...??? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-30 23:29 +0000
  Re: Network Pinger Stats.... Inadequate Management & Omissions...??? Wolffan <AKWolffan@gmail.com> - 2016-01-30 23:27 -0500
    Re: Network Pinger Stats.... Inadequate Management & Omissions...??? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-31 04:42 +0000
      Re: Network Pinger Stats.... Inadequate Management & Omissions...??? Wolffan <AKWolffan@gmail.com> - 2016-01-31 07:23 -0500
      Re: Network Pinger Stats.... Inadequate Management & Omissions...??? Anonymous <anonymous@hoi-polloi.org> - 2016-02-01 03:12 +0100
        Re: Network Pinger Stats.... Inadequate Management & Omissions...??? Wolffan <AKWolffan@gmail.com> - 2016-01-31 23:05 -0500
          Re: Network Pinger Stats.... Inadequate Management & Omissions...??? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-02-01 17:16 +0000
          Re: Network Pinger Stats.... Inadequate Management & Omissions...??? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-06 19:04 +1300
        Re: Network Pinger Stats.... Inadequate Management & Omissions...??? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201602.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2016-02-02 01:44 +0100
          Re: Network Pinger Stats.... Inadequate Management & Omissions...??? Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2016-02-01 17:23 -0800
            Re: Network Pinger Stats.... Inadequate Management & Omissions...??? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-02-01 20:26 -0500

csiph-web