On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 14:23:38 -0800, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin quoting Todd Walton as of Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:48:09AM -0800: > > > > Wow. That's a really good point. I hadn't thought of that. > > Well, it's an opinion. It has yet to be experimentally tested.
Oh, yes, sorry. I was thinking of what your opinion necessarily implied. That being that dumb users will create dumb programs and dumb security. Is GNU/Linux (or even Unix in general) secure enough that even inexperienced programmers can't write system-compromising code? I don't think so. And to the extent that it *is*, will Linux *stay* that way? Maybe not. It's commonplace for Red Hat, for example, to make structural changes where they think it's appropriate. I tend to trust Red Hat (mostly), but what happens if the Linspires of the world see a way to make Linux easy to use and follow Red Hat in their tinkering? I don't trust Linspire in this regard. "If they come...you will build it..." -todd -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
