Re: Another Fedora decision

["Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, February 10, 2015 4:04 pm, Warren Young wrote:
>> On Feb 9, 2015, at 12:12 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 2/9/2015 11:06 AM, Always Learning wrote:
>>> The third item was a 16.1 MB PDF of 1,344 pages. A quick scan of the
>>> PDF
>>> shows every page appears to be readable.  11 pages devoted to BASH.
>>> Information on other interesting topics too.
>>
>> on a site hosted in Russia which appears to be FULL of copyright
>> violations.
>
> Remember, Adobe Flash BAD, Adobe PDF GOOD.
>
> Amazing how quickly security fundamentals â?? like declining to download a
> file which can contain scripts that run on the local machine from a
> clearly dodgy site â?? go out the window when put up against expediency.

Yes, expediency. And cost, quite likely (even though it is better than
affordable). That really suggests the need to learn fundamentals (I would
put in order: Unix or Linux system basics first; system security second).

Valeri

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos