Re: Binary logs? Ugh.
Binary logs are a necessity on systems where integrity of the logs (This is proof that they haven't been tampered with) is a must.
That's a lie, pure and simple. While there are plenty of ways to protect text logs from being tampered with, all you need to do to "tamper" with the binary logs is to crash journald. There is no way to recover a log corrupted by a crash, and there will not be in the foreseeable future, as the systemd devs do not think of it as a bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64116
So much for the added security! That's an added security vuln, plain and simple (and an added pain in the ass when you want to know why the system crashed, for example to prevent it from happening again).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
