Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:52:29 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust |
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On 10/03/2011 09:49 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote: > > Note that if your laptop allows incoming ssh connections, and you > logged into master.kernel.org with ssh forwarding enabled, your laptop > may not be safe. So be very, very careful before you assume that your > laptop is safe. At least one kernel developer, after he got past the > belief, "surely I could have never had my machine be compromised", > looked carefully and found rootkits on his machines. > > - Ted
By the way, I'm now pretty convinced that allowing inbound ssh on laptops (which is the default on all the mainline Linux distros as far as I know) is seriously broken... laptops get connected to *extremely* insecure networks on just way too regular a basis.
-hpa
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