-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-07-09 at 18:14 -0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
A lack of planning is exactly what it seems is happening on this front. "We don't need it, we're invulnerable to viruses, no, don't tell me differently - lalalalalalala I'm not listening!" seems to be the predominant attitude.
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So again, we should also get rid of AppArmor and SELinux as well, since we obviously don't need those - since the *user* has to start a program that would make a change to the things those security layers protect. Right?
I mean really - what purpose do they serve? They just take up CPU cycles, slow the system down, and they protect things that don't need protecting. Everyone backs up their config files, so even if they are somehow compromised by a user doing something as stupid as launching an untrusted program, it's not a great loss, right?
There is something else. An antivirus only protects agains _known_ viruses, while apparmour, that doesn't make the computer slower, protects agains new, unknown, "bad things". - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIdQegtTMYHG2NR9URAvCXAJ0Xj/gL1j5sFGq2+Ljtzl+IXoDg7ACfSeh0 MWi0xQhmmHtunecprn3dV5s= =HIKj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org