Re: Need for automatic USB stick backup package

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Subject: Re: Need for automatic USB stick backup package
From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:05:07 +0800
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jjr@debian.org> wrote:
> On 22 March 2011 00:49, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> The mount could trigger unknown kernel vulnerabilities in filesystem code
>
> The USB Stick would be automounted anyway. How is this different?

Automounting is disabled on desktops that do the right thing and when
people want their desktop to do the right thing and so turned it off.
This would mean turning it back on again.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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