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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5426eaa0.8000...@rail.eu.org
