Re: TALPA - a threat model? well sorta.

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Aug 13 2008 - 12:42:49 EST


> So, what is it that anti-malware companies do? They scan files. That's
> it.

Good so lets instead have a discussion about making the file event
notification more scalable. That is the same thing I want for content
indexing. It is the same thing you want for certain kinds of smart
archiving, for on-line asynchronous backup and other stuff.

It ought to be a simple clean syscall interface.

Alan
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