On Fri 04 Oct 2019 at 10:49:49 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 08:54:10PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > [...] > > > Opening an email causes no problem to the system on Debian. We would be > > in deep trouble if it did. Does that address your concern? > > Woah. A sweeping assertion which would start making sense if you > tried to explain what "opening an email" means to you. Next step > would be to fix "no problem to the system" (does the disappearance > of all user files count?) and the step after that would be "on > Debian" (which MUA? Desktop environment, or just X cum WM or > console? Which set of installed programs? Is user in sudoers? Are > the last Spectre patches in? And so on). > > Yes, "our" security story is way better than theirs, and this is > partly based on technical reasons, partly on social reasons and > partly on practical reasons. But feeling smug about it is a > vulnerability in itself :-)
A single reliable, well-documented and repeatable example of a problem caused by pressing enter or clicking on a mail would go a long way to wipe the smile of my face. User files are not necessary for the health of the system. -- Brian.
