[logs] Star Trek and Log Integrity

[David Gillett]

  For completeness, one should nention the "Next Generation" episode 
where the Enterprise apparently catches the virus that destroyed 
another starship when they try to salvage that ship's logs....

David Gillett


On 6 May 2008 at 13:49, chris.wee at loglogic.com wrote:

> It is so disappointing that even in the 24th century, computer logs are
> not tamper-proof.
> 
> At least the logs are tamper-evident. Kelsey, et.al. showed us how in
> 1999
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=317089&coll=portal&dl=ACM
> 
> -chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: loganalysis-bounces at loganalysis.org
> [mailto:loganalysis-bounces at loganalysis.org] On Behalf Of Tina Bird
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 1:38 PM
> To: loganalysis at loganalysis.org
> Subject: [logs] Star Trek and Log Integrity
> 
> 
> I can't believe we've been talking about log data on this list for what,
> over 6 years now, and no one's ever brought it up.
> 
> The CBS network Web site provides episodes of classic TV shows for
> viewing,
> at the cost of 90 seconds of advertising breaks per episode:
> 
> http://www.cbs.com/video/?showname=classics/star_trek
> 
> There's no obvious way to link directly to an episode, but if you click
> to
> page 5, you'll see episode 20, "Court Martial," in which Captain Kirk is
> proved innocent of a crew member's death after Spock is able to prove
> that
> the computer logs have been tampered with. I am *so* going to
> incorporate
> this into my logging tutorial :-)
> 
> enjoy -- tbird
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