From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D324C138247 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 00:42:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4D64E0AF1; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 00:42:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm16-vm4.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (nm16-vm4.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com [216.39.63.104]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A0FAE0ABD for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 00:42:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.39.60.176] by nm16.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Jan 2014 00:42:54 -0000 Received: from [98.138.226.243] by tm12.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Jan 2014 00:42:54 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp114.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Jan 2014 00:42:53 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 926839.76589.bm@smtp114.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: feelbIMVM1k7EwC7rqJR_A5VFTpwPSe3VYWHryti5Zu9vRf LFoDOdJll3akFAPt5Tf8FsfFexSEQ85MsNeWoi0Pw5ADVGEP6vuhPR52DaQi AGqli1YuE2eYs8JipTRU_FWzdlQfDiRNKVwyd0IFpvMKpxCVKapyeXavfcsz H98VzibbkXmgq5SVf9YIY9qjKt5pXOgEuR7BTcL3KapIW6ox6igJAIAsuZxK wYM_1qYxR4FWNAURcumNfSJKpPojStei91qOpV8Ivt4zXPl161s0rKqBbQkv Tuvr8tuclN.B03isOLidZruyhgO1O3kFxfna_MCmPMhVQEiQDMtsaYXhImM5 tRzUYXtUnRRwQewSWLrdv_008vjOQ2_pUhXkkbfHVmAV5NkGYR0xTxKJI.Ie auVUyyzlvs_GVoZ6r99mUeqNOV2DSl14J3Tet.eM4YAp55zd6DuMKF_BqkzZ 6b4L6zmLYSwbsgVohggw2Gud5kDeFcnSxv7c.m6DSfLbr8UrsKTC4PAt3EVy yTZhXT1s1e76KZNTfwopAtapm0csqIQvsQfaH9iEKCDN02Cf0rpKs X-Yahoo-SMTP: oM3WcDSswBC7zv73TQKEsi7eAZ0- X-Rocket-Received: from [216.240.130.78] (w41ter@216.240.130.78 with plain [98.138.31.74]) by smtp114.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 05 Jan 2014 00:42:53 +0000 UTC Message-ID: <52C8AA90.3010600@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 16:42:56 -0800 From: walt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Preparing a shared USB stick References: <52C65C99.5080208@gmail.com> <52C89CE0.4080900@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52C89CE0.4080900@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b2db8f8b-dc82-4f4b-bc16-a4664113791c X-Archives-Hash: 5175a314f37be4f5d7dd079291caab75 On 01/04/2014 03:44 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > FAT was designed for MS-DOS where you put a floppy in the drive and you > had full access to everything on it. There was no need to implement > security. I think the operative phrase is "there was no need" back when Gates and Allen trained the world to accept failure as good enough.