Re: "systemd" and "zeitgeist" daemons as great security risk
Posted: 2018-04-11 11:09
I've always found the zeitgeist daemon pretty disrespectful to Marxism.
I personally use what_is_to_be_done.sh to encrypt my logfiles into Marxist rhetoric, and trotsky.sh to decrypt them later if needed.
Communist puns aside, I find your points reasonable. I personally refrain from the daemon for similar reasons, along with it being fundamentally superfluous to me. I think it's another example of a program that would be desirable from a business distribution's standpoint (RHEL), for the same reasons why Intel's ME was pitched (greater sysadmin maintenance on company laptops), but doesn't translate well to the consumer side of things. However, it's also important to note that if someone has access to your logfiles, you probably have bigger problems to worry about than the logging program, malware or not.
I liked this comment in the slashdot post you shared:
I personally use what_is_to_be_done.sh to encrypt my logfiles into Marxist rhetoric, and trotsky.sh to decrypt them later if needed.
Communist puns aside, I find your points reasonable. I personally refrain from the daemon for similar reasons, along with it being fundamentally superfluous to me. I think it's another example of a program that would be desirable from a business distribution's standpoint (RHEL), for the same reasons why Intel's ME was pitched (greater sysadmin maintenance on company laptops), but doesn't translate well to the consumer side of things. However, it's also important to note that if someone has access to your logfiles, you probably have bigger problems to worry about than the logging program, malware or not.
I liked this comment in the slashdot post you shared:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20120220.gifIf they really want to watch my online activity I'm sure AT&T would bend over backwards to assist them