[KLUG Members] password storage

[Phillip Hofmeister]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 at 03:41:58PM -0500, Jamie McCarthy wrote:
> kazoolug at yahoo.ca (Mike Morrett) writes:
> 
> > Also, http://www.geocities.com/ramix_info/passwordmanager.html
> 
> I would never use a password storage program that was not open
> source.  Especially one hosted on geocities.  How do you know it's
> not going to, one day, send a list of all your passwords to some
> cracked server in Kazakhstan?

You could use grsecurity to limit what files it writes to and what
programs it calls and whether or not it can make a request to open a
network request or bind to a network port.....

....Then again, it's just easier to use something that has the source
available.  If it's free (1), all the better.

1. As in speech


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Phillip Hofmeister