2010/3/15 Holger Hans Peter Freyther <[email protected]>: > On Monday 15 March 2010 14:53:44 Mike Westerhof wrote: > > Dear Mike, > >> Sigh. >> >> I really don't think this recipe is worthy of this much controversy. >> It's essential (hence the name) for certain very small NAS devices. >> >> I fail to see how its presence is impacting others -- if you don't like >> it, don't use it. Simple. > > See. This is not the point of liking or not liking a given recipe. I don't > like the fact that this recipe is not maintained for years and has the > possibility of damaging the reputation of distros built with OE. I assume > even users of SlugOS do not like if their device gets owned via known and > circulating exploits?
I think the chances are small that anyone would put a slug on the open internet. > > It would be nice if we could establish a shared responsibility for maintaining > software that listens on network ports and is handling multimedia content (the > two kind of things most likely to be suffering flaws). I don't think it is > that > difficult. If there is a remote hole and exploits are floating around, upgrade > the recipe? Note that this might go a lot further than you think. It also means keeping things like php, python and perl up to date as people could exploit bugs in php code or cgi scripts. Frans _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
