[ale] Linux Distributions

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Tue May 17 14:40:45 EDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 13:57 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> But do you think it sane to connect to a volatile P2P network as root

Sure.  However, I don't.

> with an untrusted application? 

Never.  The problem is the untrusted app, not running good apps as root.

> Clearly the developers of the application think otherwise.

If it's an untrusted app, why trust the developers?  


-Jim P.



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