Re: Wow! Lots of kernel flaws...

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan fenrus demon nl>]

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 18:32 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > (but this is a very good argument to make sure our desktop environments
> > don't mount "external" filesystems such as cds and usb sticks
> > automatically; especially if the filesystem isn't one native for the
> > device; eg iso9660 for the cd and vfat for the usb stick)
> 
> Wonderful.  Now that we've made leaps and bounds in terms of desktop 
> usability on a typical personal desktop, we have to rewind the clock and go 
> back to the clumsy ways of years gone by.

I don't follow this....
How is rejecting a minix formatted cd/usb stick for automatic mounting
rewinding the clock?

(but yes from a security point of view I don't like mounting "foreign"
devices automatically. In fact I'd love for a fuse plugin for these so
that they're not read in kernel mode...)