Re: [malware-list] TALPA - a threat model? well sorta.

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:35:29 -0400
Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:24:28 -0400
> "Press, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Press@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I may be missing something about your suggestion, but I don't see how
> > this would work.  Who does the chmod?
> 
> Chmod is also not a solution to the hierarchical storage (or incremental
> restore from backup) problem.
> 
> I believe we really do need the block-on-open.

The block on open is orthogonal really. Useful for HSM, useful for
certain very primitive scanning but not much else that I can see.

And its a minor mod to the security hooks to allow it as far as I can see
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