On 11/12/2018 20:36, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 20:06:01 +0000, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>
>> Dangerous, idiot!
>> you have no idea what dangerous is.
>>
> I'm with druck here. Doing more than you absolutely have to as root
> leaves the machine open to bigger and better attacks for no good reason.
>

I dont think anyone attacks without good reason.

I mean, really, who cares about some bloke with a pi that is world
writeable?

Not worth hacking.

You have perhap too much self importance. I very much dowubtrthat with
the exception of my ex wife, anyone is intersted in malkiciolusly
looking at the contents of my systems...boring as heck to anyone else.



> Routinely running Windows boxes as SystemAdmin or, worse, assigning that
> privilege to their usual login is what gets so many home systems infected
> by malware because it too gets access to everything.
>
> Similarly, reading mail or running a web browser while logged in as root
> gives any malware in mail or on infected websites unlimited access to
> your system by letting it also run as root, but those are only the most
> obvious dangers.
>
> That is why sensible people never run as root for any longer than
> absolutely necessary, don't configure servers to run as root and don't
> recommend running as root to newbies.
>
>
Well I agree that its perhaps nota  great idea if you are vulbnerable,
but really, are you? And how much?

I dont do it myself, but thats more because its really not so hard to
run with sudo/passwords. Or su - and the root password.

Most security discussions seem to be about fashion and arcane
possibilities rather than real quantified risks.


It was a fact that I cuaght viruses when running windows. So I ran a
virus checker.

It is a fact that since I used Linux, I have not caught a single one. So
I don't scan for them.




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“But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an
hypothesis!”

Mary Wollstonecraft

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