This week and thread content have pretty much shifted my understanding of GNU/Linux, beneficially. Somewhere in the medium-term past I had picked up this idea that the heightened security offered by *nix was its greatest selling point. But these are no longer the case.
I come to *nix looking for ways to survive with it long term, as a commercial operator, and thereby to best learn. This puts a time imperative on my involvements, that many or most do not seem to share in the same way. What we do have in common is the necessity for 'stuff' to work, and mine are more hacks with words (in the 1980s fsf sense) than in code.
What I have come up with that may prove useful for Linux advocacy situations, which we all face daily, as a simple, consumable truth (that elusive soundbyte), is:
"Computer education is the future. Free and Open Source Software gives users heightened security as part of that."
Beta versions welcome :-)
and thanks for your time.
Cheers,
Rik
David Mann wrote:
On Mar 10, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Shane Hollis wrote:
If the insecurity is the keyboard then drop the keyboard.
Exactly. If you don't mind the inconvenience you could bring up an on-screen keyboard and use the mouse to type. I could think of theoretical ways to pick that up, though... and theoretical ways to defeat the theoretical picking-up, but it'd just make things even less convenient.
Oh and look out for the person sitting next to you, they might be reading over your shoulder! Or watching you type your password!
Cheers,
- Dave
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P.S. Great pictures Dave
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