[Cialug] shell accounts

[Don Ellis]

Sounds pretty tedious to implement - would this person be a KGB or Stazi
alum (with continued connection to massive resources)? If you don't trust
the user, don't offer them VM space on your personal system. Of course, if
they're a sleeper spy and you're doing secure operations on the same system
you're sharing...

--Don Ellis


On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Nicolai <nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org>wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 09:20:38PM -0600, Don Ellis wrote:
>
> > Very safe to let someone have a VM on your machine - there is no access
> > to anything outside the VM unless you allow it.
>
> FWIW, the idea that VMs are safe is unfounded.  The most recent news:
>
> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/11/stealing_vm_key.html
>
> Nicolai
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