Am 01.02.2015 um 00:30 schrieb Paul E. McKenney: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:56:14PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Josh Triplett <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> *Today*, Linux is a challenging choice for a tiny embedded system. >>> We're trying to fix that. >> >> Can you please more specific about the embedded systems exactly you're >> talking about? >> >> I find this patch rather controversial as it removes a lot of security. >> Embedded systems *are* a target for all kind of attacks. >> Misguided embedded engineers will abuse this feature and produce even more >> weak targets. > > Without this patch, those same engineers would simply run everything as > root. "Make a foolproof system, and they will invent a better fool". ;-)
Luckily many services will run as non-root by default and some even refuse to run as root. :-) Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
