From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 23 09:52:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8AE816A41F for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 09:52:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iang@iang.org) Received: from mx1.sonance.net (mx1.sonance.net [62.116.45.222]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A4043D53 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 09:52:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iang@iang.org) Received: from localhost (mf1 [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.sonance.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55BE414012; Tue, 23 May 2006 11:52:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mx1.sonance.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mf1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09802-10; Tue, 23 May 2006 11:52:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from postix.sonance.net (zentrix [192.168.0.223]) by mx1.sonance.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D500C13EC8; Tue, 23 May 2006 11:52:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (zentrix [127.0.0.1]) by postix.sonance.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E08E17B579; Tue, 23 May 2006 11:52:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from postix.sonance.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zentrix [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29664-01; Tue, 23 May 2006 11:52:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [IPv6???1] (zentrix [127.0.0.1]) by postix.sonance.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C08E17B503; Tue, 23 May 2006 11:52:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4472DAA1.2010904@iang.org> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 11:49:21 +0200 From: Ian G Organization: http://iang.org/ User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tfotoglidis@netscape.net References: <20060522152011.10728.qmail@do.sefao.com> <8C84C132EE6302A-D48-D497@mblkn-m10.sysops.aol.com> In-Reply-To: <8C84C132EE6302A-D48-D497@mblkn-m10.sysops.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: sonance network anti-spam amavisd-new-20030616-p10 controlled spam X-Virus-Scanned: sonance network anti-spam amavisd-new-20030616-p10 controlled spam Cc: fbsd@sefao.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Survey X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:52:23 -0000 tfotoglidis@netscape.net wrote: > Might be wrong, but anything "auto-magic" sounds like not a very good > idea, saves time probably in the short term, but I''m not sure that's > what you want... Notwithstanding the dangers, I suspect it is an idea who's time has come - for security as well. It is what happens on the Mac OSX, and I for one am jealous of that feature. (Whether the Mac also introduces other problems in this way is an open question ...) iang