Chris Rowson wrote On 04/21/2007 01:18 PM: >> Going back to the security aspect >> (http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=5313), it's terrifying to see >> how ex-Windows user are willing to sacrifice Linux security culture >> for the sake a shiny desktop, and scarier still that none of the >> reviewers (Linux.com, Distrowatch, Polishlinux) even picked up on it. >> > > Hmmm I'd not heard of it before now, - reading around some info on the > distro though, its a pretty shocking way to set up a system. Its > begging for exploitation. > > Fortunately it doesn't seem to have really taken off yet. Lets just > hope it doesn't either! > > Chris > > There's a kind of dream logic to the way the various developers are trying to justify it;
"We're merely drawing the logic of D-Bus and HAL to its logical conclusion, but if -- presumably as a complete newbie -- you're unhappy about this policy and want to alter some obscure config files, then that's fine too!" (http://liste.pardus.org.tr/pardus-users/2007-April/000031.html) "But it is safe; you know nothing of my programming prowess, puny human!" (reply #18, http://polishlinux.org/?p=307&cp=all#comments) "As a UNIX sysadmin, I ran as root all the time and it never did me any harm!" (Mar 23, 2007 (06:03 PM), http://www.beranger.org/index.php?fullarticle=2677) I wrote to Bruce Schneier about all this, hoping he would deliver the fatal blow, but these days he seems more preoccupied with dolphins and squid. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
