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Re: Suggestion: Time limit for NM process



On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:36:18 +0200, "Daniel Baumann" <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net> said:

> If you play Mr. Evil in CAcert, you compromise *limited* amount of
> it's web-of-trust. If you play Basterd Debian Developer from Hell, you
> affect *all* Debian machines at once, beeing Debian Developer means
> practically to be root on over 30 million machines in the world.

To be picky, the number of machines that you can be root on depends on
how popular your package is.  Not many new maintainers would be
maintaining a package on their own that is installed on all Debian
machines.

But yes, a Debian Developer is still root on many machines.

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