On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:21:37 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) wrote:

> "Travis H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
> 

Grepping three of these lines, I cannot find it.  Tell me Travis,
what URL did you read this from?

-- 
Tom Rhodes
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