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In article <18g4c7INNihj@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland) writes:

   Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org> writes:

   >While this would be what I'd do, even this isn't 100% guaranteed if
   >someone has broken security on the machine.  It's possible, for instance,
   >that the mount command, shell or even kernel has been hacked to prevent
   >tripwire from doing it's job properly.

   *shaking head*  Man, some people can get just a LITTLE too paranoid!

   ...

   ...some people need a better sense of reality! 

You're one of them :-) 

For the record, there have been a number of instances of break-ins on
the Internet involving hacked operating systems software..  typically
/bin/login and/or telnet and/or telnetd.

Hacking the shell isn't too much harder than hacking any other
user-mode program.

It's a *lot* harder to replace write-protected boot media in a locked
cabinet through the network.

Multics, one of the most usable of secure systems (and most secure of
usuable systems), was always booted from a write-protected *tape*,
which contained the boot loader, kernel-equivalent, shared libraries,
and critical commands.
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