On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 01:10:49PM -0400, Chad N. Tindel wrote: > > Hmmm? > > > > The point is something called security. > > There is no such thing as a "proper amount of security that is correct for > all operating environments".
Whoever said there was? I didn't. > > This has no logic. Security is fundamental. No security is fundamentally > > incorrect. > > Well, you could make a box very secure by unplugging all the LAN cables from > it and putting it in a giant safe deposit box. However, I would say that such > a machine would be fundamentally incorrect for most operating environments. Nice strawmen. Too bad it's a logical fallacy. > Many people run their machines with "+ +" in root's .rhosts file because it > eases the task of doing administration. They work in a company where the box is > behind a firewall on some public network and they need there computers to How about people inside the company? Are they all nice people who live in happy valley? > get real work done.... they don't want things like "security" to get in the > way because nobody is trying to hack those machines. I digress. -Roberto -- +----| Roberto Mello - http://www.brasileiro.net/ |------+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club - http://fslc.usu.edu/ + Backup not found: (Q)uem mandou usar o Stacker? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
