On Friday 18 March 2005 16:12, Karsten M. Self wrote: > The history of secure applications development is largely divided into > two groups: > > 1. Those who anticipate hostile environments, design for scenarios in > which no two components trust one another, and correctly implement > failsafe, trust, integrity, and encryption procedures. > > 2. Those who've been the source of multiple compromises. > > > Paranoia pays off here. Safe practices pay off. Even those who _are_ > paranoid and cautious suffer breakins (the good ones will let you know > that this has happened). The truely frightening are those who deny the > problem exists _and_ fail to recongize a compromise when they see it. > When I first installed firefox it refused to run. After googling about I found the advice to do xhost +. Based on this thread I should have rejected the advice leaving me with two alternatives:
1: download the firefox source and debug it. 2: apt-get purge firefox (followed by a nasty email to somewhere) Richard Harke _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech