Re: red worm amusement
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:34:47AM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:52:02PM -0700, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> > And whose going to teach them? Certainly not an OS that makes it as
> > easy as 'apt-get install apache' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Well, your solution of making it more obfuscated and difficult will
> cause even more of a problem. Many new users will simply say "This is
> annoying, I'll install PWS on my Windows box instead."
>
> Now which is more of a 'danger'?
>
I have not proposed any type of "solution". What is so obfuscated
about having to manually start a service, or add startup links in
/etc/rc?.d?
At least if someone got comprimised on Win, then Win would look
bad, not Debian.
<jakemsr@clipper.net>
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