[wellylug] Newbie starting BWBasic - Linz

[Phillip Hutchings]

On 03/05/05, Simon Antliff <simon.antliff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/3/05, Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > On Mon, 02 May 2005 10:15, Simon Antliff wrote:
> >
> > > I ask this, because some people say you should obfuscate your sbin and
> > > bin locations for security reasons. Does this mean going through the
> > > headaches of failed scripts unless you're careful?
> >
> > Can you provide a reference to this?  I'd like to read about it.
> 
> No reference. Simply heard some people on irc talking about this.

Bah, obfuscation is no security. If people want to be silly they can
suffer the consequences and change every single script they run. I
prefer real security, such as disallowing any remote root login,
certificate-based auth, things like that.

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Phillip Hutchings
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