On Sunday, April 3, 2016 at 9:30:40 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > Exactly why did you have root ssh access with a password?
Umm... Dont exactly remember. Probably it was not strictly necessary. Combination of carelessness, stupidity, hurry.... Brings me to... On Sunday, April 3, 2016 at 9:41:11 PM UTC+5:30, Dan Sommers wrote: > On Sun, 03 Apr 2016 08:46:59 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > On Sunday, April 3, 2016 at 8:58:59 PM UTC+5:30, Dan Sommers wrote: > >> Yes, it's marginally annoying, and a security hole waiting to happen, > >> that A and A often look very much alike. > > > > "A security hole waiting to happen" = "Marginally annoying" > > > > Frankly I find this juxtaposition alarming > > Sorry about that. > > I didn't mean to equate the two. I meant to point out that the fact > that A and A look alike can be one, or both, of those things. Perhaps I > should have used "or" instead of "and." Chill! No offence. Just that when you have the above ingredients (carelessness, stupidity, hurry....) multiplied by a GHz clock, it makes for spicy security incidents(!). I just meant to say that "Just a lil security incident" is not a helpful attitude to foster -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list