Re: Beta testers needed for security tool

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From: Jim Sims
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 01:32

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(buncha stuff about a utility to diff files as a security measure deleted)

 It seems to me rather useless and extremely CPU and I/O expensive to diff
files as a security measure. How ooften you gonna run this thing? Every 10
minutes? What's the expected delta between logins that someone could be
snagging passwords on your system? Seems like better control over changing
the files is the answer rather than finding out afterwards....

 If I was gonna hack some system, I'd be sure the first thing I'd do to is
find the root's version of tripwire and change it to *always* spit out the
"don' worry, be happy message"....

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Subject: Re: Beta testers needed for security tool
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