[funsec] It's ... SUPER-USER!

2013-08-30 Thread Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
According to the NSA, "NOBODY could stop Snowden – he was A SYSADMIN!" https://twitter.com/teamcymru/status/373479159357390848 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/30/snowden_sysadmin_access_to_nsa_docs/ a) This will be a great motto for the next Sysadmin day. b) So these are the new moles? In

Re: [funsec] It's ... SUPER-USER!

2013-08-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 15:20:52 -0700, "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" said: > According to the NSA, "NOBODY could stop Snowden – he was A SYSADMIN!" If they were using SELinux with the MLS policies, even as sysadmin he couldn't have done that stuff without being detected, because the

Re: [funsec] It's ... SUPER-USER!

2013-08-30 Thread Stephanie Daugherty
I find this amusing from an agency that has for years been a leading force in defining what mandatory access control, role based access control, and separation of duties should look like. This was only possible because they found their own recommendations too inconvenient, and therefore, someone a

Re: [funsec] It's ... SUPER-USER!

2013-09-02 Thread Joel Esler
Wonder how many people are dumping selinux now. -- Joel Esler > On Aug 30, 2013, at 7:44 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 15:20:52 -0700, "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & > Hannah" said: >> According to the NSA, "NOBODY could stop Snowden – he was A SYSADMIN!" >