Fake Emails about Emergency Security Update

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Tue Oct 26 14:46:42 UTC 2004


tir, 26.10.2004 kl. 15.27 skrev Sean Middleditch:
> On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 09:16 -0300, Ben Steeves wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:46:29 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak
> > <kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:
> > > These frauds are damn impossible to protect against...
> > 
> > Nonsense.  Just don't give clueless users the ability to a) become
> > super user, b) compile things, c) install things.
> > 
> > And if your clueless user *is* your super user... well, then you have
> > problems.  :-)
> 
> The problem is that, for home users, that is pretty much guaranteed to
> be the case.
> 

My point exactly. But today that is likely not a problem - most fedora
users a so knowledgeable TODAY.

What should be worrying, is worms like MSblaster and the IE JPEG thingy.

> > 
> > -- 
> > Ben Steeves                     _                    bcs at metacon.ca
> >  The ASCII ribbon campaign     ( )            ben.steeves at gmail.com
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> > http://www.metacon.ca/bcs      / \     Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
> > 
> -- 
> Sean Middleditch <elanthis at awesomeplay.com>
> AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.




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