Secure temporary files in Linux (ZDNet India) [LWN.net]

Secure temporary files in Linux (ZDNet India)

Posted Mar 12, 2008 14:17 UTC (Wed) by vdanen (subscriber, #48453)
Parent article: Secure temporary files in Linux (ZDNet India)

This is actually quite amusing.  For one, I never wrote this for ZDNet Asia.  The original is
for 
TechRepublic: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=171

It's also not an all-or-nothing solution, but part of an overall solution (you know... the
little pieces).  
To think that securing /tmp is all you can do is laughable.  But it's a valid part... it's
called defense 
in depth.

Likewise, the unfortunate thing for writing these tips is that they have restrictive word
counts so 
while I could have written a lot more info, the space constraints are actually quite small so
if 
something could use, say, 1000 words, I've got to cram it into 400, which makes things
challenging 
and doesn't leave much room for lots of explanation.

I suppose a disclaimer might have been useful... something along the lines of "if you think
this is all 
you need to do to secure your system, you're an idiot", but somehow I don't think my editor
would 
have liked that.

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Secure temporary files in Linux (ZDNet India)

Posted Mar 12, 2008 21:34 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I didn't think of word counts. That explains a lot, I suppose, and your 
choice of topics was reasonable given horrible word count limits.

(But, er, why have word count limits at all for web pages? It's not as if 
it uses up too much paper, or as if a longer document would run anyone out 
of disk space... but that's not something you can fix.)

word count limits

Posted Mar 13, 2008 3:47 UTC (Thu) by jreiser (subscriber, #11027) [Link]

One reason for a word count limit: space on the screen (especially the first screenful), to
leave room for more ads.