| | You make a point of telling people their car's gas tank "may" | explode while driving but that doesn't stop them from driving | anyway. Your point is based on what a driver knows about their | environment, to put it another way, what if a passenger came | along and placed a flaming rag into the gas nozzle and got into | the car with the driver without telling them. Two scenarios: | A) Tell the driver, who promptly freaks out B) Car may/may not | explode. | | As a server admin, I like it when my clients inform me of any | executable they install on the server. That's all I'm saying, | I'm sure the other admins would like to know also. | Yes, I'm sure they would. Sorry, didn't mean to come across in a derogatory way if I did. Email can be dangerous in that regard. Ok, me too. I would like that too if everyone using my servers told me everything they were doing. I would also like all my programmers to put enormous amounts of comments in their code. Oh well, dream on, I would be the first to advocate common courtesy but we have to be realistic. Some ISP's might panic and cancel your account if you said, I installed a new executable but don't worry. In the case of my programmers I review all the RCS logs every week so I know exactly what has changed. I would like it if the guy in front of me bothered to signal before making a turn also, but if he doesn't, I realize I have to have control of my own car and not be following too close. Same with a sys admin, I think one has to be proactive. But I apologize if my mail offended you. It would not be hard to write a script to locate all new executables on a server and check it once a week, right? My point was regarding, probabilities. I think the probability of danger is rather high if someone sticks a flaming rag in the gas nozzle. Say, more than 50%? I think the probability of having someone take control of an ISP's server and delete operating system files using root permission just because a regular user installs MC is rather low, say, less than 1%. Would you agree, those are fair assessements? Yes, there are plenty of hackers out there, but I would guess less than 1% of the web sites on the net (how many millions do we have now?) are hacked, what do you think? Of course almost anything is possible given time and extraordinary desire on the part of the hacker. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
