comments on handbook chapter

Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:21:45 -0000

"Travis H." <solinym@gmail.com> writes:
> ``You do not want to overbuild your security or you will interfere
> with the detection side, and detection is one of the single most
> important aspects of any security mechanism. For example, it makes
> little sense to set the schg flag (see chflags(1)) on every system
> binary because while this may temporarily protect the binaries, it
> prevents an attacker who has broken in from making an easily
> detectable change that may result in your security mechanisms not
> detecting the attacker at all.''

Uh?  Since when do we have crap like that in the handbook?  It should
be removed with extreme prejudice.

DES
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