On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
Craig White wrote:
Would know if Freespire has the same security flaw that Linspire has?
Everything by design in Linspire is run as 'root'. The GUI desktop. The
applications. The whole thing. Just like Windows does.
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Like Ric & Gene
On a single-user computer there's not a whole lot of value in
preventing yourself from being able to destroy other user's
work - which is what you get from the effort of not having
admin privilages all the time.
Also some protection from accidentally destroying the rest of your system,
which seems a worthwhile tradeoff to me.
Also, if you really think there are security bugs lurking in the
programs you are running, wouldn't you prefer that they be
found and fixed instead of worked around, avoided, and allowed
to linger forever?
Well, sure, but I'm not volunteering to be the victim in the meantime.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
