🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <h+y1H-q$h9@atlantis.psu.edu>, barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:

| So flip the write-protect switch on the floppy.  No program is a
| panacea.  This sounds like a wonderful tool, regardless.
| 
| Without knowing the full mechanism by which tripwire works, discussions
| like this are of limited usefulness.  If your system regularly has been
| compromised to the point that you can't trust your kernel, you
| shouldn't be trusting Tripwire alone anyway.  If we're going to be
| paranoid, make a miniroot disk, and put all the stuff on there.  I
| kinda doubt it would all fit, however.  A floppy with tripwire, related
| programs, a known good copy of the runtime C library, and the database
| should be enough.

  I have used the free brik program for some time, as a protection
against corruption rather than breakin, although it certainly is useful
there, too. I list all the files which are critical and create a master
list using the "generate list" mode. Then I check all of those files
from time to time, and after every boot.

  This may do more than that, I'm not sure.

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    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.