Re: Let's do some coding :-)

[Marcus Brinkmann]

Hi,

At Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:17:21 -0400,
"Jonathan S. Shapiro" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> All: I am responding only to a valid discussion topic here, not to the
> general Troll that contained it.
> 
> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 22:47 +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> > ,----
> > | Emperor Alfred says: well, it's okay to be naked in public. Just
> > | ignore it.
> > | 
> > | Hey, if you are an exhibitionist, go for it. Just don't connect to
> > | the public network, because when you do you create pain for everyone
> > | else in the world. Freedom comes with responsibility.
> > `----
> 
> The quoted statement above was a response to Alfred's suggestion that it
> is okay at some point to simply ignore known architectural security
> issues and get on with shipping a system. I hope that Alfred was simply
> repeating a widely held view. I do not know if he actually believes this
> view himself.

Actually, I think that this was just an easy to make misunderstanding.
I think what Alfred meant is that those parts of POSIX that are
insecure should be ignored, while the other parts can be implemented.
This would coincede with his stance on chroot() for example.  "Ignore
the insecurities in chroot()" in Alfred speak would translate to "Do
not implement chroot()" in English.  This translation service is
offered to you free of charge :)

Even if he didn't mean that, he will certainly claim that he meant
that.  Or he will claim that he actually meant something entirely else.
You never know with Alfred.

Thanks,
Marcus