Hey, sysadmins! Are you logging stuff you don't need? If you are, The Man might bust down your door and take those logs from you and use them to screw over your gentle, goodhearted and trusting users.
EFF's got the answer: my cow-orker Seth Schoen has written an app that digs through your drive and tells you what you're logging and where so that you can decide what you need to keep and what gets catted into /dev/null.
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.Logfinder was conceived by security consultant Ben Laurie
and written by EFF Staff Technologist Seth Schoen. It's
intended to complement EFF's recent white paper, "Best
Practices for Online Service Providers," in which the
organization argues that administrators should remove as
many logs as possible and delete all personally identifying
data from them.
