[logs] Star Trek and Log Integrity

[Fenwick, Wynn]

Captain Picard: "Data, review for format string vulnerabilities in
syslog-ng. " 

Commander Data, as Picard exhales: "Done. However we must wait for the
Change Advisory Board to approve the update. They are currently
backlogged by 391 years 3 months 6 days 46 minutes and 23 seconds." 

Wynn


-----Original Message-----
From: loganalysis-bounces at loganalysis.org
[mailto:loganalysis-bounces at loganalysis.org] On Behalf Of David Gillett
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:49 PM
To: loganalysis at loganalysis.org
Subject: RE: [logs] Star Trek and Log Integrity

  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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