Re: [ubuntu-uk] How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps?

2009-02-11 Thread Michael Holloway
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 22:14 +, alan c wrote: I trust it will not be long before I can feel just a little safer? comments welcomed. Personally, I would say that this is a very long article stating that social engineering is platform independent. Anybody can stick a bash

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps?

2009-02-11 Thread Chris Bagley
Fantastic little article. I guess we are never going to be able to fully protect against stupidity but there definitely is room for bug fixes in this case. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps?

2009-02-11 Thread Jim Kissel
Michael Holloway wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 22:14 +, alan c wrote: I trust it will not be long before I can feel just a little safer? comments welcomed. Personally, I would say that this is a very long article stating that social engineering is platform independent. Anybody can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps?

2009-02-11 Thread alan c
Chris Bagley wrote: Fantastic little article. I guess we are never going to be able to fully protect against stupidity but there definitely is room for bug fixes in this case. Thunar seem to have got it right -- alan cocks Ubuntu user #10391 Linux user #360648 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps?

2009-02-11 Thread Matthew Wild
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Michael Holloway mich...@thedarkwinter.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 22:14 +, alan c wrote: I trust it will not be long before I can feel just a little safer? comments welcomed. I think something like distro level security could be implemented, where

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps?

2009-02-11 Thread Michael Holloway
I hope it is /not/ MD5, which has been 'cracked' for a while now ;) http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/md5collision/ In principle however, your idea would work well in practice. It's even quite possible to do today. I would like to see SELinux/AppArmour taken that little bit further too.

[ubuntu-uk] How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps?

2009-02-10 Thread alan c
In the open and sharing spirit of FOSS I offer a heads up to a well written item which looks like it needs some actions in response. There may be some nice debate about a definition here or there, but the real world is in this article as far as I can see. I trust it will not be long before I