 Permalink for comment 561281 RE[3]: Too funny by Lunitik on Sun
12th May 2013 22:22 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Too funny" Member
since:  This is bullshit. You can just as easily generate a
checksum from text and be just as secure. There's no reason to
not have plain text logs; especially considering that binary
logs require special tools to read and filter.  If you're
creating a checksum from a text file that is already
compromised, it doesn't get you very far.  The systemd journal
comes from such a tool, and others can be easily created.
Another added bonus though is that logs can be handled in one
place from the entire network remotely and in a secure manner,
and still the information is retained as to where it came from.
People have done similar with syslog but it is a mess, this
comes by default with systemd and makes sense considering most
Linux deployments are cluster-based.  I do not understand what
the problem is with binary log files, with journalctl they are
just as accessible as using cat but it is m