@preston: Well, let me say that if I was the one that first showed attitude, I apologize. But you have to remember that I do *all* calibre bug triage (besides doing a large part of the developement). I get to deal with lots of bug reports from people, the vast majority of which are dubious at best. In Jason's original post, only one of his five flaws seemed serious to me (the one he attached an exploit for), so that is the one I fixed. It turned out I was wrong about the mount exploit, but, from my perspective, I don't know Jason from Adam, and he has to convince me of the seriousness of his claims, merely saying they are serious is something I will ignore, from long and exhausting experience. When he did prove its seriousness to me, I tried to fix it, as best I could.
You may well ask why I didn't just take his advice and abandon the mount helper. For me to do something that drastic, I must be convinced it is indeed the best course possible. That may make me stubborn at times, but it is also the attitude that ensures calibre remains as stable as possible. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/885027 Title: SUID Mount Helper has 5 Major Vulnerabilities To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
