Hello Niklas, Thank you for contacting me.
What you say makes sense to me now. Yes, broken hardware does not compromise the system. I appreciate the time you took to write and explain all this. I panicked when my notebook went off line and I could not get it working again. I have other computers and will just wait for the pros to fix the bug. I see now that the task of addressing all of these issues is gargantuan. I shouldn't be crying about free software in the first place....I knew that Betas are always a risk. Again, thanks for your input and please stay in touch. I know nobody with any Linux experience and this is all new to me. Kind Regards, Ronnie On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 18:18 +0000, Niklas Schmidtmer wrote: > Hello Ronny, > > first of all, I understand that this is an frustrating and serious issue for > you (WLAN on my notebook isn't functional as well). But this is not a > security issue, since a broken WLAN doesn't imply any kind of compromising of > your system. There is no way of breaking into your system or any sensible > data being exposed due to a WLAN driver not behaving the way it should. No > malicious attacker could exploit this fact and attack your > system/data/privacy. This is why that's just not a security issue. > The security flag is not to indicate how severe/important a bug is (this is > what the "Importance" flag is). > > There are currently 45323 open bugs here for the Ubuntu project. I'm > sure a developer will take care of this bug, but it might take a little > time due to the high number of bugs. Hardy has just be released which > naturally causes a huge wave of new bugs being reported. So please bear > this in mind, since your ticket is just a few days old. No one sweeps > anything under the carpet (your bug report is still open and viewable by > everyone), you just aren't the only one having issues with Hardy, > especially at this particular moment. > > PS: I'm in no way officially affiliated with Ubuntu, nor am I a > developer. I'm just a ordinary user who tries to help out a bit. All my > statements are made just from personal experience with Ubuntu/other open > source projects. > -- Ubuntu LTS 8.04 kernel 2.6.24.16 PERMANTLY breaks BCM4312 on HP dv6000 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225959 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
