Re: Debian secure by default?

["Damon L. Chesser" <damon@damtek.com>]

Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 08:20:07PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
>
>   
> snip
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> What I really want to know is why the original poster can't just
> "aptitude install firestarter" or similar, and scratch his own itch?
> That seems simple and painless enough to me, without needing more exotic
> solutions.
>
>   
In defense of the OP: 

Rico Secada wrote:
> I am sorry but I had gotten my hands on a document with some outdated
> information about some default tools being unsafe with Debian because
> they had SUID set.
>
> Sorry all.
So, this has been corrected by him when he realized that the data he was 
complaining about was no longer valid.

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