[Was]: Staying with Hardy

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/11/18 Willy Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com>:
> another point that keeps bugging me is the LTS thing. hardy, whether
> LTS or not, what difference does it make? supported for 1 year, 2
> years or zillion years, what difference does it make? isn't hardy
> working now? if it loses it's support tomorrow, it won't boot anymore?
> you won't get new security updates, so what? those same security
> updates you'll get next month, are not currently installed on your
> system, and ur system is vulnerable about them! do you people really
> care about these security patches? are you all working in some hostile
> environment or something? or living near some very nasty and smart
> hackers? most of these security patches cover flaws that really
> require some very smart hacker to exploit, remember, this is Linux!
> there are no obvious security holes that can be exploited by kids!
>

I don't agree with you on the security. I think you have a
responsibility to internet users to make sure your systems are secure.
You are assuming that the smart hacker that discovered the security
holes want tell anyone so the kids cant exploit it, but you are wrong
sooner or later he will report to the vendors, show it at black hat or
use it so others will found out about it, and from there there is not
long before there is a tool that can sweep the Internet for machines
with that security hole and the kids and other will start using it to
turn your machine to a zombie that perhaps will serve child porn to
sick bastards.

The point is, you may not care what happens to your computer or your
data but if you are connected to the net you have some responsibility
to others that it may affect.

/ Jonas