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Email marketing company gives out questionable security advice Jul 03 2003 12:03AM
Richard M. Smith (rms computerbytesman com) (2 replies)

Re: Email marketing company gives out questionable security advice Jul 04 2003 11:17PM
D. J. Bernstein (djb cr yp to) (3 replies)

Re: Email marketing company gives out questionable security advice Jul 12 2003 09:30PM
D. J. Bernstein (djb cr yp to)

Re: Email marketing company gives out questionable security advice Jul 07 2003 07:32PM
Richard Rager (kb8rln penguinmaster com)

Re: Email marketing company gives out questionable security advice Jul 07 2003 06:52PM
Roland Dowdeswell (elric imrryr org)

On 1057360640 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
"D. J. Bernstein" wrote:
>

>P.S. It's hard for a portable chroot tool to cut off a program's network
>access. Kernel designers should provide a disablenetwork() syscall, with
>the disabling inherited by children. Other kernel changes would be nice,
>but disablenetwork() is the only critical change.

There are tools such as systrace:

http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace/

which comes standard in NetBSD and OpenBSD and has been ported to
various other UNIX platforms which can do what you want.

--
Roland Dowdeswell http://www.Imrryr.ORG/~elric/

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Re: Email marketing company gives out questionable security advice Jul 04 2003 07:05PM
stonewall (stonewall cavtel net) (1 replies)

Re: Email marketing company gives out questionable security advice Jul 05 2003 01:55PM
Gadgeteer (gadgeteer elegantinnovations org)