Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (142 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 15 April 2008 22:44:39 wrote Jan-Simon Möller:
> Am Dienstag, 15. April 2008 22:37:14 schrieb Marcus Meissner:
> > Btw,
> >
> > the buildservice could be used by community members to provide
> > security update services even after we discontinue it.
> >
> > Just needs some volunteers. ;)
>
> Btw.  ;)
>
> If 10.1 gets removed, there won't be the chance for volunteers to do so.

there will. However, it is better to speak up now.

but the downside of this is (if no one wants to fix the end of life systems):
 We help people run their systems after end-of-life, this mean there will be 
an increasing number of systems out there where _documented_ ways to comprise 
them. This means a large number of people (not only some high skilled 
hackers) have the chance to steal credit card numbers, create more spam or 
trash foreign data. It is one point to kill the system of someone who is 
knowing that he runs an unsave system (and I think we can make this clear).
But it would be a bad press, if it is known that openSUSE systems are used 
widely to attack other systems.
 Don't you fear that the openSUSE project could made resonsible for that ?


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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
email: adrian@xxxxxxx

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