full-disclosure - Re: one of my servers has been compromized

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Message-ID: <40206.1323212707@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:05:07 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Gage Bystrom <themadichib0d@...il.com>
Cc: "full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: one of my servers has been compromized

On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:20:51 PST, Gage Bystrom said:

> serious pain if suddenly you needed unneutered root again. Would likely
> have to take the system down to fix it. Who wants to be the guy to explain
> that situation to their boss?

If the server is critical enough that you can't take it down to fix it, it should have
been in an HA configuration in the first place.  Who wants to be the guy to
explain to the boss that you're dead in the water because of a bad system board?

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