Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Jul 2006 22:52 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Hopefully you never had to restore your own system from a compromise and you will not have to do this in the future. Working on several projects to restore a compromised Linux system for various clients, I have developed a set of rules that others might find useful in similar situations. The type of hacks encountered can be very variate and you might see very different ones than the one I will present, or I have seen live, but even so, this rules might be used as a starting point to develop your own recovery plan."
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2005-08-28
You forget, I said there had to be a legitimate way in.
Your hypothetical system could be cracked via physical access.
This would be an outrageously extreme example: An unconnected computer locked in a military base, with a 12-step authentication process including a physical dongle, of which the combinations are only known to Major General Heironymous Pingletron.
In all practical terms, that would be impossible to hack. And yet if there's a way for Major General Heironymous Pingletron to access the system, then there is a way in someone could theoretically find. Maybe if they were James Bond.
Obviously in the real world such levels of security would be only for those beyond paranoid, and one could design a much more reasonably impenetrable system.