Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 23 November 2011 14:24:40 Alin Marin Elena wrote:
> The main problem is the paranoia of the security team... who cannot accept
> that the rest of us live in a world where we need to be in control of our
> wireless...

It is the security team's job to be paranoid, and the our job to make the 
software good enough and persuade them that it can be trusted.  It doesn't 
help to set up an 'us and them' split with black and white statements - at 
some point you'll (as a telepathy IM client packager you personally sooner 
than most, BTDT) be glad of their rigour and attention to detail.

If you've been following the bugs you'll see that Ludwig submitted a patch 
earlier today to permit org.fd.NM.settings.network.own to the active user, but 
so far has (rightly IMO) not allowed wifi sharing because it a) runs a DHCP 
server, making the user effectively a network admin for all local networks and 
b) pokes iptables rules without consideration for the suse firewall.

Will
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