Wouter Verhelst wrote: > and > relying on other people's security to increase your own isn't pretty > clever, actually.
Well, it increases your own security to: It makes it harder to use your machine, were it to be compromised, as an attacker. This increases your security in two ways: 1. Generally, you log into (and thus have public keys for) boxes you care about. The worm won't be able to auto-propogate to those machines. [Remember, there have been root exploits in sshd before. And worms that exploited them.] 2. You won't have to convince law enforcement, your employer, etc. that no, really, you didn't attack that machine, it was a worm, because the attack won't happen (at least from your machine). And, in general, turning this on by default increases the general security of the Internet. That is a good thing, really. Its unfortunate, but when you share a network with a billion other people, you have to rely somewhat on the security of their machines. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
