So, if we all adopt your attitiude toward everything, then people would go for a walk in the park and get sprayed with deadly insecticide by pest control people, or drive down the road and run off a bridge that was collassped which no one bothered to barricade.
> But who is the ultimate responsible party? The clueless computer user > that tries to use some 'new fancy operating system' or the volunteer > developer of that system? Put your own political opinion onto that > question - rhetorically. > > No, if someone WANTS to use lokkit, then they certainly can, yes? Am I > assuming enough that they can 'apt-get install lokkit' and then > configure it? Make up a web page on how _you_ think you should harden > a Debian install with Lokkit as the cornerstone of your how-to and > post it. > > As several others have pointed out, and as we have seen in the world > of more popular operating systems from Redmond, installing a Firewall > that defaults 'on' provides you no real extra protection if you don't > know what in the hell you're doing with it. (You are coming to a sad > realization, cancel or allow?). > > AFAIAC, if some clueless person installs an operating system they > don't know and get themselves into some trouble, it's THEIR fault. > It's not Debian's fault, it's not Linus' fault, it's not Deb or Ian's > fault. It's not the kernel developer, it's not the CD distributor, > it's not the mirror host. You're responsible for your own stupidity > when it comes to linux, I think that's a well established aspect of > the community already; for good or ill. Very few Linux experts suffer > fools elegantly. If someone is looking for a more stupid proof distro, > perhaps Ubuntu or SUSE would serve them better. > > Let's not dumb down Debian for the rest of the world because a > clueless user _might_ compromise their own credit card numbers. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]