Well said.
On Sunday 09 March 2003 16:40, Joey Hess wrote:
> Satish Iyer wrote:
> > I am new user of Debian Gnu/Linux.
>
> Perhaps when you were installing Debian you didn't bother to read the
> following message which was prominently displayed for you:
>
> problemBox(_("NOTE: The default LILO configuration is not secure enough
> against local attacks. A user with physical access can modify the boot
> parameters and (for example) execute every program with root permissions.
> Please read the LILO documentation after the installation, especially the
> part about \"password\" and \"restricted\" options."), _("Securing LILO"));
>
> > To my current understanding security seems to be a
> > major drawback of gnu/linux systems.(How else can you
> > explain such gaping holes?).
> > I am also inherently suspicious of anything that goes
> > by "free" (Please try to convince me otherwise).
>
> Yes well, I am inherently bored and/or unimpressed by people who parade
> their lack of clue on public mailing lists and insult me, but whatever. I
> am also inherently suspicious of software whose source I cannot examine,
> but perhaps that's just me.
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