Security

Though my views aren’t as extreme as Richard Stallman’s, he does have a point: A decade ago we’d be up in arms about relatively trivial privacy-invading crap in operating systems, but it’s since become the norm, with most smartphones and laptops having things pre-installed that send personal data in the background to Google, Microsoft and whichever assortment of corporations. A state of affairs brought about by a confluence of what we collectively surrendered for convenience.

!!! info Original post on my WordPress site The Scenario The following is a summary of what’s presented in the case study. It begins with the discovery of the following in file inetd.conf on a workstation running Red Hat Linux: netstat stream tcp nowait root /usr/lib/netstat netstat A graphical CPU load monitor showed 100% load, the top command indicated only 90%, and there were apparently no running processes listed that accounted for the discrepancy.