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People's reaction to this is just stupid.

Posted Nov 19, 2009 20:53 UTC (Thu) by kilpatds (subscriber, #29339)
In reply to: People's reaction to this is just stupid. by drag
Parent article: Fedora 12 lets unprivileged users install packages

drag wrote:

It's a hell of a lot f-ing more trivial to do that then using package kit to install a service or application that runs as root and is locally exploitable.

Really? It takes less time to reboot my laptop and crack the HD password (full disk encryption) that it does to install a new package and break it?

Perhaps the disk encryption people should fix that...

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People's reaction to this is just stupid.

Posted Nov 19, 2009 23:02 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

What distro ships with encrypted drives as the default?

What computer ships with a bios password as a default?

If you take steps to secure your stuff then that does not enter into this
discussion really. People are pissed off about the default configuration and
that is what I am talking about.

A configuration, btw, that is trivially easy to change.

People's reaction to this is just stupid.

Posted Nov 20, 2009 1:10 UTC (Fri) by kilpatds (subscriber, #29339) [Link]

drag wrote:

What distro ships with encrypted drives as the default?

FC11. At least it was so easy to do during the install it might as well have. So, I needed to know darn little to set that up. Certainly less than I need to know to turn this off.