On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 04:11:15PM -0200, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote:
> Em 04-02-2014 15:04, Marc Espie escreveu:
> > That's the motto "secure by default". Does also mean "try to make sure
> > things are reasonable by default, and that people will naturally do
> > not stupid things". (e.g., https is not reasonable. By default, you
> > get to trust a metric shitload of authorities you really wouldn't want
> > to trust) 
> This is the main reason why I use OpenBSD. It does a hell of a great job
> in not letting the stupid shoot their own feet. And it has lots of
> flexibility for the smart ones tweaking it in anyway. One thing though,
> people have the tendency of trying to shoot their own feet, sometimes
> just for fun and other times because they will take a gun, assemble it,
> load it, and start playing around with it until it accidentally fires on
> their feet. For these, I really do not know what I'd say.

Like the chinese curse goes "may you live in interesting times".

I'd try to convince them to switch to FOO-BSD, so that they go annoy
the developers of FOO.

(unless their attempts at stupidity are madly entertaining, in which case
those crackpots^Wpeople are welcome to stay.)

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