Would Lin?ux have been affected by such virus preloads

Leo Mauler webgiant at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 16 10:56:14 CST 2007


At least in the case of the U.S., and to some extent
the U.K., government officials understand that they
work for a government which (a) tries to put lots of
government-accessible back doors into every
communication and networking system in existence,
which (b) are then available for other
non-governmental entities to exploit.  Using a
"sneakernet" of heavily-encrypted 500GB portable hard
drives isn't such a bad idea in this era of "big
brother" governments poking holes in their own
protective walls.

As for the "plain stupid" idea, government agencies
who allow just anyone, including the hard drive, to
contact rogue websites in China probably aren't using
a "sneakernet" of the type I described.

--- Phil Thayer <phil.thayer at vitalsite.com> wrote:

> Because they are trying to get as much as they 
> can for the least amount of money.  It happens 
> all the time.  You can buy a 1TB external disk 
> for about $500 but a quality SCSI array would 
> be much more expensive. However, if your 1TB 
> disk fails you lose everything.  If you lose a 
> disk in a SCSI array you don't.  More and more 
> people are trying to do things with as little 
> money as possible and are sacrificing the 
> security that comes along with the higher price 
> of quality hardware.
>  
> Also, because they might be just plain stupid.  :)

> 	On Nov 14, 2007 7:19 AM, Oren Beck
> <orenbeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 	
> why would government agencies use large portable
> hard drives to store databases?
> 	
> Quote:
> Around 1,800 of the portable Maxtor hard discs,
> produced in Thailand, carried two Trojan horse 
> viruses: autorun.inf and ghost.pif, the bureau 
> under the Ministry of Justice said.
> 	
> The bureau said that hard discs with such a 
> large capacity are usually used by government 
> agencies to store databases and other 
> information.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/11/11/2003387202



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