On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 00:44 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > the more important question: who do gnome developers think they are > to > make such decisions? Hi Reindl, If you know enough about TLS to decide whether to click the Load Anyway button in your browser on a particular site, or enough about DNSSEC to know whether you want to disable validation, then congratulations: you are the 1%. That's great, but we are building an operating system that needs to be safe to use for the 99%. An operating system that requires users to make confusing security-related decisions is not safe to use. Constructing such an operating system is not ethical. If you know what a session cookie is, that clicking the Load Anyway button in your browser leaks it to attackers, and why that matters, then you are the privileged minority, and our software is not designed for you alone. Our free software will respect users -- the entire user population, not just the 1% -- or it will be bullshit [1]. I don't expect you to agree with me on this, but there you have it. :) Michael [1] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/32686.html -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
