On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:26:21PM -0700, d3fault wrote: > thiago wrote: > >It's about deciding which of two evils is the lesser one. > > EXACTLY. > -A few crackers armed with knowledge you don't have > -A ton of script kiddies with knowledge you also have > > The lesser of two evils is the latter. > this is exactly where you are simply wrong. for the vast majority of users, downtime is a way more costly problem than an information leak. add to that that resourceful crackers often have zero-day exploits available anyway, and it becomes blatantly obvious that your "security group was infiltrated/hacked" scenario is, statistically speaking, rather irrelevant.
also, we are talking about qt here. no sane person would use qt in the trusted parts of a (seriously) security-sensitive system. so, can we now *please* put the matter to rest? _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
