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Comment on Why the risk of running as root is overblown by David

David — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:43:00 +0000

@ethana2: You’re absolutely right. We’re not there yet, but look at AppArmor. It’s intended to do EXACTLY what you’re looking for. Though, to be honest, single player games are one of the safest apps out there (though there was a time when some were distributed setuid to write to a central high score list for all users on the system).

Take a look at AppArmor. Unfortunately, not every app (not even close) has an AppArmor profile.

Comment on Why the risk of running as root is overblown by ethana2

ethana2 — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:07:23 +0000

I don’t like that all my apps have access to all my user data. If an Android app wanted SD card access for no good reason I wouldn’t install it, why should I put up with that on the desktop?

Games, for example, should have no access to *anything* outside of ~/Settings/NameOfGame. Nothing. Gnome minesweeper should not be physically capable of reading or modifying my files.

Comment on Why the risk of running as root is overblown by Benjamin Humphrey

Benjamin Humphrey — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:37:36 +0000

rm -rf / doesn’t actually work.

Comment on Why the risk of running as root is overblown by Steven

Steven — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:30:05 +0000

Thank you for this post, but I think the real takeaway point from it is that Linux needs to be made more secure for ordinary Desktop users. Fewt had a blog post here in which he argued something similar:
http://www.fewt.com/2010/04/system-security-what-about-your-data.html

Comment on AXIS IP Cameras = Fail by Ced

Ced — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:27:02 +0000

Any alternative? Thanks.. got the same ip cam..

Comment on Canonical Store Issues by Alan Pope

Alan Pope — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:08:44 +0000

http://canonical.com -> ‘Contact’ -> ‘Get in touch with the training team for other Ubuntu training enquiries.’ ->

https://forms.canonical.com/training/

Comment on Canonical Store Issues by Mez

Mez — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 07:23:13 +0000

I’m actually surprised you got through to someone with Merchandise Mania – from experiences I’ve had with the Ubuntu Store, getting anyone to respond is impossible!

Comment on Canonical Store Issues by invalidCCIE

invalidCCIE — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:04:15 +0000

the same thing happened to me.
but after 3rd request to merchandise mania i’ve received email with voucher numbers.

but i’ve thought problem was with ups delivery, they have somewhat strange business methods in my country.

Comment on Attack of the Cosmic Rays! by a@c.com

a@c.com — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:19:48 +0000

Fail, he didn’t bother to run memtest, the problem had happened a few times so it’s not related to cosmic rays.

Comment on Who’s screwed up worst? by Aoirthoir An Broc

Aoirthoir An Broc — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:24:05 +0000

“but now they want to prohibit artists from using their choice of license for the media they produce.”

I read the letter they sent out and didn’t see anything about prohibiting me from choosing my own licenses. Do you have a link with more information?