-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:51:32PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > > Microsoft by June 2003". Then you open it without knowing that the > > file has "rm -rf /" code, because isn't that true that the Linux > > Community is full of nice people only!? Then as you are reading the > > shit..., your system file evaporates to the heaven of bytes forever! > > Well, only an idiot admin would run OO as root, or accept mail as root. While this is true, the world has lots of idiots. Or, said a nicer (and more pragmatic) way, you can only know what you know, and lots of new users probably don't understand this, and do regularly run their system as root. But... > > work; and at once how potentially dangerous it can be if there is a > > bastard wants to f_ck with that. > > Only dangerous to the idiot admin. Not true. It can be used to wipe out all of the user's files, transmit the user's data to some other host, and probably lots of other interesting things that I'm not creative enough to come up with off the top of my head. This is the problem with programs that allow for automation of tasks that involve manipulation of the user's data beyond what's in the program... It allows a nasty person to do all sorts of interesting things to green users who don't know any better. Such functionality should be disabled by default, and provide the user with an informational dialog if they decide to turn it on. The manual should also explain the risks involved. Not much more can be done than that... - -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+LGdDHEnASN++rQIRAr6RAJ9CsovEVBje8Hnuo+6j4jBgrt6YzACgpHg2 C9FYRrHh+gOx3PHRD10cX3E= =Dw1l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
