Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 Randall R Schulz:
On Thursday 07 February 2008 14:07, Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
Randall, for brevity's sake, it can do whatever an ELF LSB executable chooses to in your backyard.
No, that is not so. Can you point me to a known exploit on Firefox (e.g.) that allows execution of arbitrary code? 'Cause that's what you're claiming.
I'm saying any app could. Minus app-armored (or the likes) stuff. Why do you think app-armor came about in the first place?
The question is, what's the good of repeating over and over again that Linux is as vulnerable as Windows (a near-absolute falsehood)?
Randall? Almost noone is saying anything like that over and over. Quite the contrary. Which is what got me into this thread.
Linux is safe when used intelligently.
"I'm a linux user, I click on anything i feel like" sounds intelligent to you? Get out of here :)
If that's too complicated for someone, they shouldn't be using a computer at all.
True. But -- reality check -- not done. Actually I think we're not far apart in the assessment of linux security. Strong, responsive security communities, good upstream links, peer-review, all that. In that light it leaves me baffled though that people keep on downsizing this huge effort by saying "It's safe anyway". Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org