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Submission + - Openwall Linux 3.0: no SUIDs, anti log spoofing (openwall.com) 2

Submitted by solardiz on Friday December 17, 2010 @03:00AM

solardiz writes: Openwall GNU/*/Linux (or Owl for short) version 3.0 is out, marking 10 years of the project. Owl is a small security-enhanced Linux distro for servers, appliances, and virtual appliances. Two curious properties of Owl 3.0: no SUID programs in default install (yet the system is usable, including password changing) and logging of who sends messages to syslog (thus, a user can't have a log message appear to come, say, from the kernel or sshd). No other distro has these. Other highlights of Owl 3.0: single live+install+source CD, i686 or x86_64, integrated OpenVZ (host and/or guest), "make iso" & "make vztemplate" in included build environment, ext4 by default, xz in tar/rpm/less, "anti-Debian" key blacklisting in OpenSSH. A full install is under 400 MB, and it can rebuild itself from source.

Submission + - Wikipedia - Problem Administrators?

Submitted by Moryath on Friday February 23, 2007 @12:50PM

Moryath writes: High ranking Wikipedia admins — caught trying to shut people up for exposing their deeds, and then posting "anonymous" flames at them?

Wikipedia seems to be in a tailspin lately. What can they do to pull out of it? Or is the entrenched cronyism and corruption of the administrators too much for it?

Seagate Plans 37.5TB HDD Within Matter of Years 395

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 05, 2007 @10:29AM from the lot-of-pr0n dept.

Ralph_19 writes "Wired visited Seagate's R&D labs and learned we can expect 3.5-inch 300-terabit hard drives within a matter of years. Currently Seagate is using perpendicular recording but in the next decade we can expect heat-assisted magnetic recording (HARM), which will boost storage densities to as much as 50 terabits per square inch. The technology allows a smaller number of grains to be used for each bit of data, taking advantage of high-stability magnetic compounds such as iron platinum." In the meantime, Hitachi is shipping a 1 TB HDD sometime this year. It is expected to retail for $399.

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