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On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 07:12:00AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
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Debian is trying to protect you from someone taking over your...
say Apache [...]
My Debian machines do not physically have networking capability.
See my email hearder. Mr. Gates can handle some things ;/
No physical networking capability is needed for surprising things
to happen. Spiritual network access may be enough (say playing a
video file which carries a stack smashing exploit for your video
player).
I seem to discern in you the old DOS attitude which brought about
a Golden Era of Virus (which is returning via the "The Browser is
The Machine", mind you ;-)
(please, don't take the above really seriously: but yes, many
decisions behind all that permissions circus in Unix and children
can be traced back to an effort to separate different things.
If you let that concept sink in, you won't be surprised as often).