I think some of the people who argue these things lose sight of the practical. For example, I know that the FBI or a competent locksmith could pick the lock on my front door, but I lock it anyway and consider that sufficient security for my needs. This is because my imperfect lock offers sufficient discouragement for 99.999% of the people who I believe might try to enter my house for bad purposes. I also believe that 99.999% of them would leave evidence of a break in when circumventing my present locks.
Thats when you adopt a large dog, that barks alot... 90+ lbs is preferrable.
There were two episodes of "It Takes a Thief" in which the dogs just wagged their tails as the thief broke into the house. In fact, in last week's episode, he took the dog too!
Most dogs only tend to bark when their owners are around.
iirc, I thought that with Linspire V they fixed the "root" thing and now you enter a non-privleged user account to use on a regular basis when it's installed. It was discussed at a LUG meeting a few months ago.
Whatever account Robertson chooses to login as on his computer is his own business.
But he's promoting his own behavior as be the preferred behavior for his customers.
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