Sitwon/Byzantium — Issue #4: Logging and system seizure.
Author: virtadpt
Created: 2011-10-14 12:24:37+00:00
State: open

In use cases like the Egypt Problem, it is likely that a Byzantium node, if seized, could be analyzed to gather information about currently associated users. Thus, it would be prudent (after the alpha release) to configure the system and as many apps as feasible to either log nothing (best case) or log directly to /dev/null (worst case).

It would also help prevent nodes from running out of disk space (and RAM, in the case of liveboot-only nodes).

syslogd should be disabled. Apache should be configured to log nothing. MySQL error logging should be turned off. Etherpad-Lite should log nothing. The IRC server should be confirmed to log nothing; logging of qwebirc should be disabled as well).