[ubuntu-uk] Graphical configuration for ndiswrapper in Feisty

[Michael]

Chris Rowson wrote On 04/21/2007 01:18 PM:
>> Going back to the security aspect
>> (http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=5313), it's terrifying to see
>> how ex-Windows user are willing to sacrifice Linux security culture
>> for the sake a shiny desktop, and scarier still that none of the
>> reviewers (Linux.com, Distrowatch, Polishlinux) even picked up on it.
>>     
>
> Hmmm I'd not heard of it before now, - reading around some info on the
> distro though, its a pretty shocking way to set up a system. Its
> begging for exploitation.
>
> Fortunately it doesn't seem to have really taken off yet. Lets just
> hope it doesn't either!
>
> Chris
>
>   
There's a kind of dream logic to the way the various developers are 
trying to justify it;

"We're merely drawing the logic of D-Bus and HAL to its logical 
conclusion, but if -- presumably as a complete newbie -- you're unhappy 
about this policy and want to alter some obscure config files, then 
that's fine too!" 
(http://liste.pardus.org.tr/pardus-users/2007-April/000031.html)

"But it is safe; you know nothing of my programming prowess, puny 
human!" (reply #18, http://polishlinux.org/?p=307&cp=all#comments)

"As a UNIX sysadmin, I ran as root all the time and it never did me any 
harm!" (Mar 23, 2007 (06:03 PM), 
http://www.beranger.org/index.php?fullarticle=2677)

I wrote to Bruce Schneier about all this, hoping he would deliver the 
fatal blow, but these days he seems more preoccupied with dolphins and 
squid.