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Becoming a "Linux Security Artist"
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| As I mentioned before, the architecture of
| Linux follows closely the architecture of the
| Unix systems. A relatively small monolithic
| kernel with libraries and utilities that add
| functionality to it.
|
| This alone adds security value, since it
| allows the end user to turn off a lot of
| services (both hosted and network services)
| that they do not need, and if left to run on
| the system would create more avenues and
| possibilities for attacks.
|
| For example, the average desktop system acts
| as a client for services, not as a server.
| Turning off these services means that other
| people across the network cannot attach to
| them. In the early days of Linux a lot of
| distributions would be distributed with the
| services turned on when you installed and
| booted them the first time. This was under the
| mistaken impression that having the services
| running would make them easier to administer,
| but security people quickly pointed out that
| having the services running at installation
| time (before needed patches could be applied)
| also left the systems, however briefly, open
| to attack. Now most, if not all, distributions
| install with these services turned off and you
| are instructed to turn them on at the proper
| time, hopefully after you have applied needed
| patches.
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http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/299241:becoming-a-qlinux-security-artistq-
Recent:
DIY
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| maddog troubleshoots a broken Windows system and saves his niece
| some money in the process.
|
| My niece was having problems with her system,
| which because of her work must run Microsoft,
| and she decided to take it to a repair depot
| to have the hardware checked to see if
| anything was wrong. Nothing wrong could be
| found by running hardware diagnostics.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2010/113/DIY
Mr. Obama, Please Tear Down This Wall!
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| Only three days after posting my blog
| regarding the plight of Google's Chinese
| customers and how their data is now at the
| whims of a US-based company and its
| conflict with the Chinese government, I
| read about the issues of SourceForge.net
| and the U.S. State Department's Export
| lists and how the data stored in a US-based
| company, sometimes created by non-U.S.
| based citizens, is now being controlled by
| U.S. State Department rules.
|
| [...]
|
| Is the argument being made that the
| populace of those countries will throw off
| their governments because it is hard for
| them to get access to Free Software? I
| suggest that it will simply be a matter of
| time before some entity will re-create a
| "SourceForge" in a more Free-Minded
| country, and yet another agency of Free
| Thought will be carried and championed
| outside of the United States.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/Mr.-Obama-Please-Tear-Down-This-Wall
Penguin Awareness
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| Also important for graphics art re-use is
| that the license for the use of the
| original image of Tux is very liberal,
| with Larry Ewing, the copyright holder,
| giving people permission to use the image
| as long as the user acknowledges him as
| the author and the GIMP as the creator of
| the image "if someone asks". The last
| phrase is probably enough to give most
| lawyers shivers, but it has allowed Tux to
| show up in the original unmodified form in
| areas as diverse as Plumbing supply
| trucks, air-conditioning repair services,
| lottery tickets and fireworks.
|
| Of course Wikipedia has an extensive
| listing on Tux, so I will not go into all
| of the history behind him, but I do want
| to pass on one story:
|
| When Tux made his first appearance in 1996
| I was at a trade show, and a friend of
| mine who ran a Linux business selling
| distributions, T-shirts, and other Linux
| "things" came up to me and declared his
| disgust with the choice. I asked him why
| he did not like it, and he said that Tux
| was "fat and silly looking" and that we
| should have had as a mascot a tiger or
| shark, something with teeth and fangs to
| rip Microsoft apart.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/Penguin-Awareness
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