-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 07:12:00AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...] > >Debian is trying to protect you from someone taking over your... > >say Apache [...] > > My Debian machines do not physically have networking capability. > See my email hearder. Mr. Gates can handle some things ;/ No physical networking capability is needed for surprising things to happen. Spiritual network access may be enough (say playing a video file which carries a stack smashing exploit for your video player). I seem to discern in you the old DOS attitude which brought about a Golden Era of Virus (which is returning via the "The Browser is The Machine", mind you ;-) (please, don't take the above really seriously: but yes, many decisions behind all that permissions circus in Unix and children can be traced back to an effort to separate different things. If you let that concept sink in, you won't be surprised as often). regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlggiFoACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZy7wCfRZaATrhbYIuH7TR0+LpFnPuO XYAAnivpYOSb36gdDW5LcArlKsW6p1vW =0lLZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
