Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:04:48 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Real-time alarms Message-ID: <37E5C070.7BB582A5@softweyr.com> References: <199909180612.AAA00597@harmony.village.org> <4.2.0.58.19990918093306.047917c0@localhost> <37E4449B.ADDD68EE@softweyr.com> <4.2.0.58.19990918201409.047f9f00@localhost> <199909191933.NAA25843@mt.sri.com>
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Nate Williams wrote:
>
> Case in point. Tripwire is *NOT* a breakin-avoidance system, it's a
> breakin-detection system.
Right. As a definition, a breakin-avoidance system would be able to
recognize an attack underway and *harden* the system to resist futher
attack.
> Breakin detection systems are at best poor
> and at worst useless, and so far no-one has found a way to make them any
> better. :(
"Be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good."
-- Ashliegh Brilliant --
;^)
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