Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 27, 2007 01:32 AM
You are misusing the word Grok. It's a common mistake but it bothers me. Grok shouldn't be used in place of understand. Grok derives it's meaning from "to drink". Basically that you understand something so intimately the it's like it touches the inside of who you are. You don't need to grok permissions to understand Linux computer security, I'd be scared of anyone who did grok them.
I'd say you do need to be worried about security on Linux. It's quite easy to download little programs off the net not knowing what they do that will open up back doors on your computer or send out info you don't want sent out. This is very easy to do with Firefox. In Linux, so have security you should install your software from a trusted source who has verified the programs are safe. If you start installing binary blobs in the form of Firefox extensions, who knows what you'll get.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 27, 2007 01:32 AMI'd say you do need to be worried about security on Linux. It's quite easy to download little programs off the net not knowing what they do that will open up back doors on your computer or send out info you don't want sent out. This is very easy to do with Firefox. In Linux, so have security you should install your software from a trusted source who has verified the programs are safe. If you start installing binary blobs in the form of Firefox extensions, who knows what you'll get.
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