[Discuss] PwnEscape

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On 10/19/26 7:13 AM, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> I have heard that some people go as far as store system utilities in
> encrypted volumes and only mount them with a password.

I like that, make "living off the land" harder by locking up useful 
stuff. Too extreme for me, but in a some circumstances it could make sense.


> Its an endless game of whack-a-mole. Sigh.

Well, vigilantly whacking all those moles actually does work pretty 
well. And it helps that the Linux kernel folk take security very 
seriously. Compare to the constant vulnerabilities in established and 
oddly well respected products like Fortinet, where they clearly don't 
care. I suppose because good marketing works, too.


> (By the way, Google bases its glinux on debian.)

I didn't know that. Makes sense. And if they are pushing internal fixes 
they like upstream, it helps others.


-kb