Re: [Full-Disclosure] Talk in #grsecurity

2004-03-27 Thread Peter Busser
is able to provide a similar protection level. That's the truth. Groetjes, Peter Busser ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Talk in #grsecurity

2004-03-27 Thread Peter Busser
, Peter Busser ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: hard links on Linux create local DoS vulnerability and security problems

2003-11-26 Thread Peter Busser
, then others can't hardlink to your files. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking high-security Linux out of the labs, and into the real world http://www.adamantix.org/ ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: yet another OpenBSD kernel hole ...

2003-11-18 Thread Peter Busser
? The Adamantix kernels are compiled with SSP (aka propolice), which is the same thing used to compile the OpenBSD kernel. It protects against some, but not all, overflows. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking high-security Linux out of the labs, and into the real world http

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning

2003-11-06 Thread Peter Busser
and upgrading as you go. But either way, why not go with 2.4.20? Put CD1 in CD-ROM drive. Boot computer Wait for prompt type: bf24ENTER And install a 2.4 kernel based Debian system, which includes ext3/reiserfs partitions. It's there in the help text, one F-key away. Groetjes, Peter Busser

Re: [inbox] Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Linux (in)security

2003-10-24 Thread Peter Busser
alone is 6 CDs. Sarge will be bigger. It is almost true that if you cannot find it in Debian, it does not exist. With a code base that large, it is not surprising that there are more advisories for Debian than for other, much smaller distributions. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project

Re: [inbox] Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Linux (in)security

2003-10-24 Thread Peter Busser
discussing the real issues and talk about irelevant details forever. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking high-security Linux out of the labs, and into the real world http://www.adamantix.org/ ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe

Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Linux (in)security

2003-10-23 Thread Peter Busser
of time improving the security of Linux systems. Now there is the idea that it is not worth the effort, because Linux is after all secure. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy software out of the labs, and into the real world http://www.adamantix.org

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Linux Exec Shield (was: Linux (in)security)

2003-10-23 Thread Peter Busser
enabled kernel :-). This is what it looks like when you run it on an Adamantix kernel: PaXtest - Copyright(c) 2003 by Peter Busser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Released under the GNU Public Licence version 2 or later Executable anonymous mapping : Killed Executable bss

Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Linux (in)security

2003-10-23 Thread Peter Busser
. And the director of IBM's Linux Technology Center has nothing to do with Linux development either. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy software out of the labs, and into the real world http://www.adamantix.org/ ___ Full-Disclosure - We

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: No Subject

2003-10-22 Thread Peter Busser
is that you _can_ choose for a distribution that provides more security if you want. You just have to search a bit and you can find about a dozen security related Linux and *BSD projects/products. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy software out of the labs, and into the real

Linux (in)security (Was: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: No Subject)

2003-10-22 Thread Peter Busser
not realise that a wooden house is not sufficient to protect against the big bad wolf. And there is currently no brick house to flee to when the wolf comes... Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy software out of the labs, and into the real world http://www.adamantix.org

Re: [Full-Disclosure] No Subject (re: openssh exploit code?)

2003-10-22 Thread Peter Busser
, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy software out of the labs, and into the real world http://www.adamantix.org/ ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html

Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Linux (in)security

2003-10-22 Thread Peter Busser
the necessary services. In other words, boxes that have ``been made secure by their users''. M$ has not, and that is unfortunate. Flaws in other products do not make Linux more secure. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy software out of the labs

Re: [Full-Disclosure] OT: An odd question that has arrisen within my household

2003-10-16 Thread Peter Busser
into the hype of the buzzword-of-the-day security tools fall into this category. People who develop these tools and believe their merit are also scriptkids. There is a saying: It takes one to know one. BTW, noone cares about your personal problems with Theo. Groetjes, Peter Busser

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Friendly and secure desktop operating system

2003-10-16 Thread Peter Busser
it hard to make it correct and secure. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy software out of the labs, and into the real world http://www.adamantix.org/ ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com

Re: [Full-Disclosure] openssh exploit code?

2003-10-13 Thread Peter Busser
to do. That is no problem, I mean, you don't have to feel ashamed about not understanding something complicated. You are certainly not alone, everyone has things he/she does not understand (I know I don't understand many things). Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Bush Bashing (use to be Has Verisign time arrived ?)

2003-10-07 Thread Peter Busser
80 or 90% of all weapons exports in the world. It is good business you know. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy software out of the labs, and into the real world http://www.adamantix.org/ ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe

Re: [Full-Disclosure] CyberInsecurity: The cost of Monopoly

2003-09-27 Thread Peter Busser
has ever done that. And therefore we're perfectly safe. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy software out of the labs, and into the real world http://www.adamantix.org/ ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Swen Really Sucks

2003-09-24 Thread Peter Busser
to be a different non-randomized e-mail address, possibly the real e-mail address of the infected victim (? haven't read any forensic analysis on this point yet...) Does this imply that your e-mail filter does not understand regular expressions? Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Is Marty Lying?

2003-09-22 Thread Peter Busser
and not proactive. Making machines harder to break into and improve ways to enforce a security policy (e.g. by using Mandatory Access Control (MAC)) would be one way to proactively deal with security. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy software out of the labs

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Is Marty Lying?

2003-09-22 Thread Peter Busser
with a higher level of system security than most currently available systems would be a nice start in that direction IMHO. If it is harder to break in, then there is less to detect in the first place. You could call it Intrusion Prevention. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking

Re: [Full-Disclosure] MS Blaster author / morning_wood misinformed

2003-08-31 Thread Peter Busser
explaination of the things he did to protect his system. If you do nothing or not enough, you are more or less inviting someone to break into your system. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy software out of the labs, and into the real world http://www.adamantix.org

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Bill Gates blames the victim

2003-08-31 Thread Peter Busser
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Re: [Full-Disclosure] MS Blaster author / morning_wood misinformed

2003-08-30 Thread Peter Busser
some fines). I don't know about US, Canadian, German or Chinese law. But in Dutch law there is a big difference between entering a house and stealing stuff and breaking into a house and stealing exactly the same stuff. Apparently the house owner has a responsibility of his own. Groetjes, Peter

Speculation in the media (Was: Re: [Full-Disclosure] CERT Employee Gets Owned)

2003-08-27 Thread Peter Busser
address this subject, that was a different program. (Nonwithstanding the fact that the title of the broadcast was: Computer-terrorism, something everyone can verify at their web site.) Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy software out of the labs, and into the real world

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Buffer overflow prevention

2003-08-20 Thread Peter Busser
. This is simply not the most sexy and profitable thing. Especially for commercial Linux distributions it pays of more to add stuff to the user interface than to spend a lot of time (and money) on adding more security. These are of course only a few of the reasons. Groetjes, Peter Busser

Re: [inbox] Re: [Full-Disclosure] Reacting to a server compromise

2003-08-04 Thread Peter Busser
by one eye witness (who was watching from a distance). Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy software out of the labs, and into the real world http://www.adamantix.org/ ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Reacting to a server compromise

2003-08-02 Thread Peter Busser
hacked machine owners find out your machine was the cause of the problem. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy software out of the labs, and into the real world http://www.adamantix.org/ ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe

[Full-Disclosure] Finally a substitute for the soap series!

2003-07-19 Thread Peter Busser
. But that is a good thing. I have been looking for a good substitute for the tv soap series, since they have a summer break, and I think I finally found it: Full-disclosure. I would like to thank everyone who makes that possible, keep up the good work! Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Microsoft Cries Wolf ( again )

2003-07-04 Thread Peter Busser
to court and demand compensation for the damanges caused by badly designed or buggy software. Neither really happens, so what incentive is there for companies to change? Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy software out of the labs, and into the real world http

Re: [Full-Disclosure] microsoft phoning home?

2003-07-04 Thread Peter Busser
: Out TCP, localhost:1218-207.46.248.249:80, Owner: D:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE it seems to be trying to contact 207.46.248.249, wich is sa.microsoft.com Doesn't IE automatically check for new updates? Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy software out of the labs

Vote with your dollars (Was: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Microsoft Cries Wolf ( again ))

2003-07-03 Thread Peter Busser
to get the picture? Simple: Vote with your dollars. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy software out of the labs, and into the real world http://www.adamantix.org/ ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http