Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:35:29 -0400 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to alinuxinterfaceforon access scanning |
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On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 09:35:13AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > We shouldn't need to care what people do with good interface. What > matters is in your airport example is that at the infrastructure level > there is a point you can choose to do scanning and we agree where. > Whether people use this to provide a Starbucks or goons with rubber > gloves who take away babies milk is an application layer problem.
If it's a good interface that also happens to address HSM/DMAPI functionality, as well as a more efficient way for trackerd to work, I agree completely. I think you will agree the proposed TALPA interface is a bit too virus-scanner specific, though? Especially with explicit talk of specialized (persistent or not) "clean/dirty/infected" bits that the kernel would store in the inode for the benefit of the AV scanner? That's rather optimized for the goons-with-rubber-gloves that-make-mothers-drink-their-own-breast-to-prove-it's-not-explosives crowd, I think...
- Ted
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