On Fri 21 Aug 2015 at 07:21:48 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:46:40PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > [...] > > > Your point is a good one, as is John Hasler's. > > > > But it really doesn't matter how much malware a user has stacked up in > > their $HOME as long as the system is safe. The safeness of the system > > doesn't (or shouldn't) depend on the vagaries of popularity. > > That's the sysadmin point of view. The user, OTOH does care about her > files. I don't care as much about the health state of /bin/ls as I do > about the health state of my home subdirectory called ~/.banking :-) > > Of course, a compromised /bin/ls can compromise my ~/.banking and not > the other way around, but I think you get what I mean...
I do. We are agreed that my files are the most important on the system. :)
