Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> 
>  > 
>  > He doesn't have to 'hope' you need a restore - he can just wipe all the 
>  > live copies.  Now it's time for you to put back the old working copies. 
>  > With the current backuppc scheme of collision detection you could - if 
>  > you relied on md5's blindly you couldn't - or you might get an ugly 
>  > surprise from the substitute file.
> 
> If he wants to replace those critical files with malware, why not just
> do it directly since the "disgruntled" employee  has write access to
> them rather than concocting this elaborate roundabout scheme...

Because then you'd still have a copy of the real data that you could 
simply restore.  Remember - that's why you made those backups, thinking 
they actually held copies of the original files.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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