On 2019-10-08, Keith Bainbridge <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I put noexec under the heading of it may deter somebody who is > looking for easy targets. >
The seminal vector of the ANU attack (a concerted, determined, and sophisticated affair that might very well have been carried out by state operatives) was social (as in engineering); this could be considered a clueful lesson--if only they were capable of receiving one--to those system administrators positing the irrelevancy of human nature in these technical matters. Of course, we've already seen someone suggest here crippling modern email (in a University setting!) to the point of bare-bones ascii text communication with zero attachments; it is only a matter of time before one of our brilliant members opines that the veritable solution to our security concerns is the elimination of the human element altogether. -- "There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." -- Robert Louis Stevenson
