Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:06:35 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: schultz@ime.usp.br Cc: Peter Vereshagin <peter@vereshagin.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysctls and privacy Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK3muydsiDfdFeQDFD8PiH%2B-zhverofWUNLXZHLKucs4Fw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20121014223328.16140uoyo4x5dii0@webmail.ime.usp.br> References: <20121012095915.470864k9735iy883@webmail.ime.usp.br> <20121013101545.GA21274@external.screwed.box> <20121013120939.18067gfy2u4vdzjn@webmail.ime.usp.br> <20121014140148.GA5344@external.screwed.box> <20121014223328.16140uoyo4x5dii0@webmail.ime.usp.br>
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 8:33 PM, <schultz@ime.usp.br> wrote: > >> Here is the catch. I know I can read-only mount most static filesystems > from a template. However, the mutable ones have to be copied. > Says who? Is this your requirement? Why? > Because someone might know the program memory, cpu or network usage > patterns > and extrapolate from the data. Firefox is a good example because it > eats up huge amounts of RAM and garbage collects it quite fast. So when > that pattern shows up you know someone is probably using Firefox. > This, of course, also applies to other programs. > If this is really a serious concern of yours, you have much bigger fish to fry than sysctl(8). -- Adam Vande More
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