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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: wasted cycles
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Date: 18 Nov 88 16:46:52 GMT
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In article <2661@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
>Something very important should be said about FSF in this regard.  The official
>copies of Gnu software are mode 777, deliberately, based on RMS's opposition
>to any notion of security.  Already, someone attempting to FTP GNU software
Oh, terrific. we run that stuff, not so much cause everyone here loves it but 
because some people do. A 'du' shows the emacs tree is tens of mbytes, with
the gc* trees coming in close behind. Where is the best place to put
a virus? A compiler of course. Next best place? emacs? OK, how do you know
it has not already happened? Better yet, look at the > 100 Mb X source, 
which i hope to hell is not so loose...
   I liked the good old days better, when nobody who used unix gave a 
damn about this stuff. Then we wouldn't have cared ...
ron
P.S. BTW i think Henry's original comment was more about FSF software's 
cost (use of resources and cycles) than security ...