Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux
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On 04/20/07 04:58, galevsky@gmail.com wrote:
> Moreover, most of Windows users are running their home OS with the
> administration rights all day long, they used to download and install
> lots of non-opened freeware from the web.
>
> Well, they just do lots of important/dangerous/admin tasks that should
> be done normally with a lot of care. Linux learns you these notions
> that lots of basic MS users lack. Just tell linux users to ride their
> boxes as root, installing lots of binaries not managed by their
> distros without extra care, updating as much often as new versions
> come out without thinking about stability, and you would see a huge
> smile on their faces, with a "good joke !" comment. This is the
> cultural gap.
What galevsky writes is key.
Also, note that while I have absolutely *no* worries about viruses,
and *would* worry about worms, rootkits & buffer-overflows if my box
had any daemons listening on net-viewable ports, I *do* worry about:
Firefox/Iceweasel.
An XSS bug + a buffer overflow could lead to privilege escalation
and a rootkit being installed which could phone home or do other
malicious things as root.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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