recovery from stupid error

[Brett Profitt]

You are quite mistaken.  I am not making a point to favor security
through obscurity at all, nor do I think that practice should be
encouraged.  I again remind you of the correlation between physical
locks and security measures.  There is a general opinion, unless I am in
the minority, that blatantly advertising full access is in no way secure.

Once again, the point, which I obviously have failed to make clean, is
that this is an insecure default setting.  Ubuntu, being a "newbie
friendly" installation, should take this into consideration, as many new
users will not have the experience to know to change such a setting.

Brett

Jay R. Wren wrote:
> On 7/14/05, Brett Profitt <brett at narnarnar.com> wrote:
> 
>>But how many people KNOW that as opposed to the number of people who
>>might see "Recovery" and think "hrm...I wonder..."
>>
> 
> 
> Your point is now in favor of security through obscurity.  I didn't
> think this was a generally accepted security practice.
> 
> You can always reconfigure ubuntu to your liking post install.
> --
> Jay
>