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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Guidelines for dangerous USE flags
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 10:21:28 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan$b2c1b$a5c3d588$9808626a$30020d4f@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20170829211332.61f19e10@katipo2.lan

Kent Fredric posted on Tue, 29 Aug 2017 21:21:09 +1200 as excerpted:

> On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 03:06:13 +0000 (UTC)
> Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> 
>> nrpe-command-args-SECURITY-HOLE or just nrpe-GAPING-SECURITY-HOLE
> 
> That's probably excessive, if you set that USE flag globally, you
> deserve what you get.
> 
> And if you are responsible and you know what you're getting, then you
> should be allowed to do that ( even though I struggle to understand why
> )

Good point.

(And the global-use "why" might conceivably be creating a deliberate 
multiple-vulnerability distro for people to test their exploit abilities 
and techniques on, like the one I remember reading about awhile back.  
Unfortunately IDR the name, but someone will likely reply with it...)

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman



  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-29 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-22 17:22 [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for dangerous USE flags Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-22 17:37 ` Sven Vermeulen
2017-08-24  3:06   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2017-08-29  9:21     ` Kent Fredric
2017-08-29 10:21       ` Duncan [this message]
2017-08-22 18:44 ` [gentoo-dev] " Robin H. Johnson
2017-08-24 15:22   ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-25 22:07     ` William Hubbs

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