Usage of apturl in the documentation
Andrew Sayers
andrew-ubuntu-doc at pileofstuff.org
Sun Sep 28 00:44:51 UTC 2008
Hey guys - I hope I'm not interrupting a private argument, but I think
there's a language issue here.
It's common in everyday speech to talk about paranoia as a highly
stigmatised mental disorder. In security circles though, paranoia is
talked about as a skill to be cultivated, rather like a spy might
cultivate their duplicity or a soldier might cultivate their aggressiveness.
An everyday reading of Matthew's words does imply an unwarranted
personal attack, but a "security" reading is rather more nuanced - that
if you're going to worry about that level of threat, you have to really
get inside the mind of an attacker working at that level.
Speaking as someone who is proud of his extreme paranoia, I invite you
to work around any apturl blocks with the following link:
http://pileofstuff.org/apt.cgi?mysql-openallports
That page will redirect you to the apt: link of your choice - it will
also display a "page not found" message, which would take all of half an
hour to work around if I was actually interested in that sort of thing.
- Andrew
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