Autorun is VERY bad

[MR ZenWiz]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:54 PM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Loïc Grenié <loic.grenie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2011/2/7 MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com>:
>> > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:21 AM, kellyremo <kellyremo at zoho.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> How to disable autorun? Are there any hidden autorun features on a standard
>> >> Ubuntu install??
>> >>
>> >> http://securitytube.net/USB-Autorun-attacks-against-Linux-at-Shmoocon-2011-video.aspx
>> >>
>> >
>> > RTFM
>>
>>    Which one ?
>>
>>          Loïc
>
> Autorun is typically a feature of the graphics display manager (i.e.,
> GNOME or KDE).  It is not inherent in Linux.
>
Come to think of it, this should be fairly obvious - the teaser shot
of the video on the referenced page is an image clearly labeled as
"Nautilus external thumbnail settings."  Nautilus has a help function
(aka manual), Nautilus is part of Gnome, which also has a help
function (and manual), and actually neither is part of Ubuntu or
Linux, per se, so there would not be a Linux or Ubuntu manual for it
(although the "Ubuntu manual" as it were is easily accessible on the
web and anyone who has read even a tiny fraction of the traffic on
this list would - dare I say should? - know).

I suppose I could have said that.