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Cleanliness next to Rootliness
Daniel Hanson, 2005-04-27

Linspire's arguments to only run a desktop system as root has everything to do with privilege seperation, privilege escalation, and some design choices made along the way.

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Cleanliness next to Rootliness 2005-04-28
dph - author
Personally, I think anyone who only worries about the harm that they can see shouldn't be in the security business.

If your biggest problem is someone (maybe you) deleting your data, or you system, you aren't paranoid enough.

The real harm comes when you CAN'T see what is happening. I'm para...

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