[Cialug] shell accounts

Ralph Kessel ralphkessel75 at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 21 08:36:16 CST 2012


so would I



________________________________
 From: chris rheinherren <c.rheinherren at gmail.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] shell accounts
 
I might be interested

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:06 PM, jrnosee <jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm probably going to have a couple of cheap computers to get rid of if
> anyone was still interested in having a cheap box to set up linux on.  I've
> got to dust them off (if that shows age) and try a livecd on them or
> something, but they work.  No monitors though....
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Don Ellis <don.ellis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Sounds pretty tedious to implement - would this person be a KGB or Stazi
> > alum (with continued connection to massive resources)? If you don't trust
> > the user, don't offer them VM space on your personal system. Of course,
> if
> > they're a sleeper spy and you're doing secure operations on the same
> system
> > you're sharing...
> >
> > --Don Ellis
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Nicolai <
> nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 09:20:38PM -0600, Don Ellis wrote:
> > >
> > > > Very safe to let someone have a VM on your machine - there is no
> access
> > > > to anything outside the VM unless you allow it.
> > >
> > > FWIW, the idea that VMs are safe is unfounded.  The most recent news:
> > >
> > > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/11/stealing_vm_key.html
> > >
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