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jelderlast Friday at 11:12 AM2 repliesview on HN

My thoughts exactly. And couldn’t an attacker just fill the logging volume with uninteresting events to prevent certain other events from being recorded?


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gertrundelast Friday at 12:29 PM

That would be where something like auditd would come in, configured so that if the audit logs location runs low on space (or out of space), it will halt the system.

(Yes, quite harsh, but for some use cases it may be the right thing to do, i.e. to fail closed).

jorvilast Friday at 11:48 AM

Log filtering via severity / keywords prevents this, assuming the logs are regularly and properly checked.