[ale] Linux Distributions

[Jim Popovitch]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 14:17 -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> Nothing but what's the difference between running kazaa as jimpop and
> kazaa as root any other lesser known app which might have a back door 
> due to less scruitany?

If user jimpop has access to everything in order to make everyday items
work properly (wheel equivalent) then what is the difference?

> The issue isn't (generally) the well known apps which have many
> developers looking at it over a long time such as mkfs, ifconfig, ip,
> etc but the other 3rd party apps with a less picked apart code.

Agreed.  Use what you trust, not what you don't.  The chief problem on
Windows isn't running as Administrator, it's trusting poorly written
applications.

-Jim P.