I changed subject to more appropriate one. Social engineering has nothing to do with particular operating system. On Wikipedia in article about computer security you can find examples where the best software and security design was busted because of user(s). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security On Friday 11 December 2009 00:56:14 Basil Chupin wrote:
As my REPOST message states, the question of security was not fully pursued - after it was claimed that permissions can be changed even within a user's environment.
It is not "even can be", it is designed to be possible. It is UNIX heritage where few thousands users didn't call system administrator to set permissions in their home directory. They did that according to their needs. And there is nothing to pursue if user can't get basic advice: *Do* *not* *download* *files* *from* *unknown* *sources*. Web page where majority of posts come from benevolent Linux contributors, but has no strict control over user identity, is not automatically place where you can trust every file posted. -- Regards Rajko, openSUSE Wiki Team: http://en.opensuse.org/Wiki_Team People of openSUSE: http://en.opensuse.org/People_of_openSUSE/About -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org