PolicyKit releases and !AWOL

[Doug Klima]

David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 03:02 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>   
>> Interesting. X-GNOME-SystemSettings doesn't work for me (Debian unstable).
>> Is this maybe a Fedora-only thingie?
>>
>> Please see also:
>> http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
>>     
>
> Not sure. Looks like Matthias got cut from the Cc list; adding him back.
>
>   
>> Well, making it 4754, means everyone can read the binary.
>> If you make it 4750, the user can download the deb/rpm and extract the
>> binary from there to read it. So you don't gain any additional
>> security by making it non-readable
>>     
>
> No, but it makes it a lot harder; if you can read the file you can run
> strings(1) and ldd(1) on it; that alone is a lot of useful information.
>   
Security through obscurity.

I thought all Linux guys would have learned from Microsoft that it
doesn't work.