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

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Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:21:38 -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 15:14:29 PST, Gage Bystrom said:

> Maybe I'm misreading what you said, and if so please correct me, but
> whether or not the changes described were applied in the first place or not
> wouldn't change the issue that if you needed root unneutered again you
> would need to bring down the system. 

Right.

> > 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?

"Hey boss, I *told* you a server failure would cause an outage, and you didn't
fund the purchase of redundant HA gear".  All the explain you should be needing
to do.

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