[ale] security

[Ben Coleman]

On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 20:08:13 -0400, michael mcdermott wrote:

>also is there any info on "advanced" techniques for securing a linux
>box. I looked at the howto and its pretty basic, covers almost all the
>important stuff, but i was more interested in the arcane and esoteric
>things that you could do if you were a really paranoid bastard (which i
>am)

You might want to look at the newsgroup comp.os.linux.security that just
got voted in, and should be created in the next few days.  From the
Charter:

>This newsgroup is dedicated to the discussion of issues related to
>establishing and maintaining the security of machines running the
>Linux Operating System on all processor architectures.

>Open discussion of techniques and software for protecting machines
>against remote attacks (via a network connection) as well as attacks
>from untrusted local users are welcome. This discussion can include
>information about which applications are vulnerable, the form of the
>vulnerability and snippets of source code for demonstrating the
>vulnerability.

Ben
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