From: Lionel Bouton <Lionel.Bouton@free.fr>
To: vda <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x bit for dirs: misfeature?
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 23:36:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF98955.8060107@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0111190927100.17210-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <01111917034005.00817@nemo>
vda wrote:
>On Monday 19 November 2001 14:46, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, vda wrote:
>>
>>>[...]
>>>
>>See UNIX FAQ. Ability to read != ability to lookup.
>>
>>Trivial example: you have a directory with a bunch of subdirectories.
>>You want owners of subdirectories to see them. You don't want them
>>to _know_ about other subdirectories.
>>
>
>Security through obscurity, that is.
>
Security through obscurity is about hiding protection measures taken not
about hiding sensible data...
Hiding sensible data is the main protection measures' purpose :-)
One single example :
Would you want to publish the exhaustive list of locations were your
credit card number may be stored (even though it *should* be perfectly
secure) or keep it hiden from public eyes ?
This is mainly OT on linux-kernel now. Feel free to mail me directly for
future exchanges.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-19 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-19 16:22 x bit for dirs: misfeature? vda
2001-11-19 14:36 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-19 16:58 ` vda
2001-11-19 15:04 ` Tim Waugh
2001-11-19 15:29 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-19 16:00 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-19 17:43 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-11-19 18:24 ` vda
2001-11-19 16:44 ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-19 17:24 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-19 19:39 ` vda
2001-11-19 19:07 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-20 13:03 ` vda
2001-11-19 21:01 ` Flavio Stanchina
2001-11-19 19:21 ` vda
2001-11-19 18:14 ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-20 11:20 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-11-20 12:01 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-20 15:08 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-11-20 17:18 ` Mike Castle
2001-11-20 17:37 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-20 12:58 ` vda
2001-11-19 16:47 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-11-19 17:15 ` David Ford
2001-11-19 17:37 ` Pascal Schmidt
2001-11-19 18:42 ` J Sloan
2001-11-19 14:46 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-19 17:03 ` vda
2001-11-19 15:07 ` Shaya Potter
2001-11-19 15:12 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-19 15:19 ` Mathijs Mohlmann
2001-11-19 15:36 ` Gerhard Mack
2001-11-19 16:19 ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-19 22:36 ` Lionel Bouton [this message]
2001-11-19 15:12 ` Mathijs Mohlmann
2001-11-19 17:41 ` vda
2001-11-20 0:38 ` Albert D. Cahalan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-20 16:05 Thomas Hood
2001-11-21 10:34 ` Helge Hafting
2001-11-21 23:00 ` Mike Fedyk
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