Subject: Re: Updating /etc...
To: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@OBAN.DSSC.CS.CMU.EDU>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM>
List: current-users
Date: 12/22/1995 09:43:26
On Fri, 22 Dec 1995, Chris G Demetriou wrote:

> I don't want to even take the _chance_ that installing JoeBob's
> package to potentially reorder all of my rc scripts, since it had some
> bogus dependencies.

On my side, I don't trust JoeBob to not name his startup script the same 
as JimBob's all-singing/all-dancing super dooper gizmod startup 
script (which I depend on every day).  By lowering the intelligence 
required to administer the system, you open a wider door to the very real 
threat of trojans.  I'm not yet convinced that this is a Good Thing...

--scott