From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sudo in kernel config ?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:03:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100911230314.1f5abfeb@scooter.muppet.show> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009112305.22534.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:05:22 +0100
Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 11 September 2010 21:28:13 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
>
> > This was actually a potential risk once upon a time:
>
> Sorry to drift from the topic, but would somebody please explain to me
> what a potential risk is? How does it differ from a risk?
>
> (Not getting at you, Etaoin; the world is just full of woolly thinking
> that threatens to submerge us all. Or not thinking, in most cases.)
I suppose that a risk is potential because it's possible that it's, um
"risky" only under certain circumstances.
If those circumstances are not true for you, there is no risk; if they are
true, there is a risk.
Once you know that there is a risk (thus it's no longer potential, but
it's actual), it still take somebody or something to exploit it to actually
have a problem.
Makes sense?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-11 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-11 8:24 [gentoo-user] sudo in kernel config ? Stéphane Guedon
2010-09-11 9:46 ` Albert Hopkins
2010-09-11 10:41 ` Stéphane Guedon
2010-09-11 13:43 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-09-11 15:53 ` Albert Hopkins
2010-09-11 20:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-11 20:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-09-11 20:51 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-11 21:05 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-09-12 8:14 ` Stéphane Guedon
2010-09-11 20:35 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2010-09-11 20:28 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2010-09-11 20:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-11 22:05 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-09-11 22:03 ` Etaoin Shrdlu [this message]
2010-09-11 23:06 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-09-11 23:15 ` [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] " Etaoin Shrdlu
2010-09-12 9:16 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-09-12 10:24 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2010-09-12 16:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Al
2010-09-11 20:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-09-11 20:49 ` Dale
2010-09-11 21:01 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-09-11 21:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-11 21:47 ` Dale
2010-09-11 23:17 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-12 16:59 ` walt
2010-09-11 17:59 ` Nikos Chantziaras
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[not found] ` <frvbX-6Dv-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2010-09-12 7:29 ` [gentoo-user] " Gregory Shearman
2010-09-12 16:36 ` Bill Longman
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