Matt Wheeler wrote: > 2009/11/30 John Moser <john.r.mo...@gmail.com>: > > Mainly just the bad press that Ubuntu would get as a result. Can you > imagine the headlines there would be? "Ubuntu operating system hacks > Windows computers"
Agreed on marketing, though again I tend to not care. It doesn't send information back anywhere and presents itself as a fairly useless tool for extracting the information to the human operator, this is just a useful feature. > > Technically speaking other tools are not "just as accessible" - who > else ships out free live CDs? Download and burn is easier than mail to my house 5 months from now... > > Again, while I have no problems with such tools being available, and > find them useful, I think it would be a bad move for such a public > distro such as Ubuntu to start including such tools by default, purely > from a marketing point of view. There's no way you're going to get “It > can be used to test how secure my network is” to fly with even most > tech press, let alone mainstream media. > Oh, that example was more for a technical argument. Although I like to publicly hammer brokenness, and shipping a network-manager-cracker in the repos would pretty much do just that; shipping it by default would make even the most basic "low hanging fruit" argument about how "WEP makes you more secure than plaintext" visibly moot. I can't actually see how this would be garnering bad press, aside from the business end (who wants the liability?) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
