> How do you know what is sensitive information ? A kernel debug
> message may just say something like "bad message 47 65 68 65 69 6d",
> and the kernel has no idea that this is actually a password
Why on earth would the user give the kernel a password?
The point is user input like telephone numbers or passwords should never
be fed into the kernel anyhow. On the rare case it is (apparently this
ISDN instance, assuming it is actually from dmesg and not syslog), the
kernel should not echo it.
Robert Love
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