PolicyKit releases and !AWOL

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Mon Dec 17 09:23:22 PST 2007


On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 09:35 -0500, Doug Klima wrote:
> > 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.

What part about "this is not security; it's a way to limit damage when
security already went out the window" didn't you understand?

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

Just FYI, my view on bashing MS is that it instantly makes me think of
Slashdot kiddies. It's just childish. You're better than that.

     David




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