RE: *ICN - A Conspiracy of Inertia?

From: Bill McCarty (bmccarty@apu.edu)
Date: 03/21/02 

Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:21:02 -0800
From: Bill McCarty <bmccarty@apu.edu>
To: Kerberus <kerberus@microbsd.net>, focus-ids@securityfocus.com

Are you referring to the OProfile profiler or some other project?

FWIW, Munson pretty much wrote the book on software complexity metrics. As
I recall, he also dabbled in program execution profiles. From an academic
standpoint, his work is not easily dismissed. Whether his work has
practical value is another question entirely, one that can be answered
adequately only by field trials.

I'd urge a look-and-see attitude rather than an autonomic response to what
I concede appears to be hype. Certainly, Munson's approach is not the final
solution to security problems. But, sometimes, there is substance beyond
hype. Such may be the case here.

Cheers,

--On Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:21 PM -0500 Kerberus <kerberus@microbsd.net>
wrote:

> Basically there is a set of kernel
> patches located on sourceforge for linux and freebsd, also openbsd, and
> with some tweaking and rebuilding, seeing as i refused to run a kernel
> built by someone other then me, i did get the system runnning, basically
> these kernel patches add what appear to be watch points at the kernel
> level and interact with the monitoring software!

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Bill McCarty