Today I received this email, here's the salient portion:
On 21/7/2017 6:24 am, updates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
BEWARE:
Because of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1366968
you need to switch your system to SELinux permissive mode.
How was that ever accepted as a solution? That kind of approach should
have been rejected.
What next? If some app says they can't get through your firewall, and
that you need to remove your firewall to use the app, would that be
accepted? Or it needed read/write access to the entire filesystem. Or
any number of other anti-security stupidities.
Would that be okay, too, or would the app be told to clean their act up
or go away?
And no, I'm not using knot or knot resolver, but I was appalled to see
that kind of thing in the mailing list of updates.
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Boilerplate: All mail to this mailbox is automatically deleted, there
is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages
posted to the mailing list.
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