Getting people to say nice things about Microsoft (Linspire repo)
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Thu Jan 25 16:58:34 UTC 2007
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>>>
>>> Would know if Freespire has the same security flaw that Linspire has?
>>> Everything by design in Linspire is run as 'root'. The GUI desktop. The
>>> applications. The whole thing. Just like Windows does.
>> ----
>> Like Ric & Gene
>
> On a single-user computer there's not a whole lot of value in
> preventing yourself from being able to destroy other user's
> work - which is what you get from the effort of not having
> admin privilages all the time.
Also some protection from accidentally destroying the rest of your system,
which seems a worthwhile tradeoff to me.
>
> Also, if you really think there are security bugs lurking in the
> programs you are running, wouldn't you prefer that they be
> found and fixed instead of worked around, avoided, and allowed
> to linger forever?
Well, sure, but I'm not volunteering to be the victim in the meantime.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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