Re: Fake Emails about Emergency Security Update

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On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 09:16 -0300, Ben Steeves wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:46:29 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak
> <kyrre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > These frauds are damn impossible to protect against...
> 
> Nonsense.  Just don't give clueless users the ability to a) become
> super user, b) compile things, c) install things.
> 
> And if your clueless user *is* your super user... well, then you have
> problems.  :-)

The problem is that, for home users, that is pretty much guaranteed to
be the case.

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