[Cialug] shell accounts

[jrnosee]

I'm probably going to have a couple of cheap computers to get rid of if
anyone was still interested in having a cheap box to set up linux on.  I've
got to dust them off (if that shows age) and try a livecd on them or
something, but they work.  No monitors though....


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Don Ellis <don.ellis at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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