Re: [cobalt-developers] Backups - Newbie

["H.P. Stroebel" <hpstr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Arthur Corliss schrieb:

> someone has the ability to put a trojan in your path, then any infiltrator
> with half a brain cell will have put the trojan in place of the correct
> binary.  Even if it's a self-deleting variant, you're still just as hosed.

i remember things that could be done even without ANY braincell

> in your path, explicity declaring the path isn't likely to add any security to
> your environment.  All you're doing is engendering a false sense of security.

i never claimed to post instructions for a secure system in a 5-line
post where others need between 700 and 1200 pages just to explain basic
security.
as i don`t want to fall in a christian<->islamic-like discussion about
system security at the level of "do i use a path or not", please feel
free to use it without the path if you want to.

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H. P.  Stroebel, Germany

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