On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 08:06:59PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 09:42:48AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >yes - and I have been the victim of one of these (the 'suckit' rootkit). > >But at least using non-modular kernels prevents one class of attacks... > > Sure. At a fairly high cost in administrative overhead you can prevent > one fairly narrow category of attack (one which I've seen fail in the > field a *lot* because the kiddies run into problems of compatability > between kernel versions). I have yet to see a convincing argument that > the dubious benefit justifies the cost.
why, in particular, do you consider it to be a 'fairly high cost in administrative overhead'? Campbell > Mike Stone > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
