EFF's Logfinder

clonebarkins writes "EFF has just released a new software tool called "logfinder" to help server admins find (and delete) unnecessary log files on their boxen. "By finding unwanted log files, logfinder informs system administrators when their servers are collecting personal data and gives them the opportunity to turn logging off if it isn't gathering information necessary for administering the system.""

Comments

Can't subpeona what doesn't exist?

[PornMaster]

Is the point of this that law enforcement can't subpoena records that don't exist?

"Boxen"

[m_member]

Can I have a tool to locate and delete people who use the word 'boxen'? GPL preferably.

interesting...

[Spider[DAC]]

Actually, it uses lsof and a few other niceties to locate open files that change over time, then scans them for presence of time/date stamps, mailaddress or other "log" activity.

So, no, its not just "locate log" that somone suggested, nor is it "find /var/log" either, but a bit more complex.

As for the comment about competent site-admin. This is a bit more than that too, its also about users and active software, peoples IRC logs, various ftp clients that clobber up and log passwords along with everything else in their config dir. And so on and so forth.

Re:Thanks EFF!

[innerweb]

As is always, that which helps to protect the innocent can be used to protect the *evil*. The problem is the innocent do not know what is being done, and the *evil* are studying and learning to use and abuse. Nothing new there.

InnerWeb