[cryptome] on logging

  • From: coderman <coderman@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:53:22 -0800

On 12/16/14, John Young <jya@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
> Cryptome's miserable lament, and complicity, is that every operator
> of a service on the Internet is snatching personal data by way of
> access logs, ostensibly essential for system administration but mostly
> used for nefaria, that is, to advance mostly the interests of the operator
> by leastly serving the interests of users.


the key is to configure to capture nothing useful. e.g. a proper
access indicating only: "127.0.0.1 - - [16/Dec/2014 18:21:21] "GET /
HTTP/1.1" 200 1852"

... oh, but what's in a date?  well, hrmm.


best regards,
 codermange.
   (as diseased as ever)

Other related posts:

  • » [cryptome] on logging - coderman