Re: make gnome listen on localhost:*

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Chris Evans wrote:

> > But that's OK - who cares about usability as long as the computer is
> > "secure"?
> 
> Oh come on. Let's say GNOME, tomorrow, started shipping without _any_ inet
> sockets listening. This list would be inundated with complaints that the
> desktop is ruined, would it?

> [1] At this current time. Can we focus on the now not the future
> please. It's not as if decisions can't be revisted.

By the time your solution arrives at the userbase, it will be obsolete,
and it already would cause problems for at least a few users inside &
outside of GNOME. The solution needs to be a lasting one, or in six months
we are going to have to be doing exactly what Paul was complaining so
vehemently about: Telling users why their packages need updating because
of security reasons.

Needless to say, I do not consider turning off network access a lasting
solution, :)
-- Elliot
"Moron of the week" for four years running