On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 20:29 -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote:
Lamar Owen wrote:
On Friday 18 November 2005 09:55, Brian T. Brunner wrote:
Who, pray tell, is my attacker?
The Windows box that just got infected from a floppy disk, CD, or other media, and it is inside your firewall (if you have one). Of course, if all your systems are embedded, or have no network connections, then there is no attacker in the traditional sense.
However, SELinux can provide more protection than that, perhaps even preventing a bug in the code that's running from blowing away critical files, for a possible (even if not probable) example.
I'd like to interject here.. this thread has really gone off the deep end, but just chew on this for a little while, and perhaps something good will come out of it. 99% of the time, people get agitated, aggrivated, or ill about things that 1., they have no control over, and 2., in all likelyhood, 99% of the time, those 99% of events will *NEVER* have any impact on you, *so* why even worry with it ? Personal feelings never solve anything unless you happen to be husband and wife, and I don't think any of you fit that category. It's time to move on to other topics, if this thread has not run everybody off already.
---- and I'd like to interject here...
I am quite certain that few if any minds are changed by these debates but I think that it's arbitrary and unfair for some to express their opinions and then someone decides that they can cut off debate because they aren't interested.
I presume you know how to delete emails that are on topics that you aren't interested in.
Everyone should get the opportunity to speak their piece - regardless of whether you agree or not, and if you're not interested in the thread...just delete it.
Craig