Björn Persson wrote:
max wrote:
You had no idea there was a security
issue? It was the first thing to cross my mind when I first saw the
announcement. What else could it have been? Why else the cryptic
message?
You're lucky to be that paranoid. Many people would call me paranoid if they
You call it paranoia, I call it common sense. Do the math, I did. I felt
that if it was anything but a security issue then they'd have come right
out and said so. The only reason not to come out and say so boiled down
to a handful of things. An ongoing investigation and/or uncertainty
about what had happened. If you and others want to insist that it was
just not wanting to own up to the incident then I have to assume you
don't trust the Fedora Project. If you don't trust it then why use the
product of its labor? All this talk of obscurity is a bunch of bullshit
when anyone with a grain of common sense would have come to the proper
conclusion or suspicion, if you like, and done what needed doing at
their end. The message set off the warning bells for me precisely
because it avoided stating that it wasn't a security issue, others read
it the same way. All things considered its been handled to my
satisfaction. The only thing that's been made clear is that the Fedora
Project has a number of users who take it for granted.
knew what kind of security measures I take with my home computers, but
apparently I'm not paranoid enough yet.
Can you answer the opposite question: Why the cryptic message? Can you think
of a rational reason to avoid the word "security"? Something more concrete
than just "legal issues"?
Once again we don't know the constraints imposed on them. Some are
certainly caused by legal issues and what remains an on going
investigation. Your opinion of US law is irrelevant, I've had my issues
with it before as well but the law is the law. The point is that we
don't have all the facts. The more important point is that you have used
half the facts to indict Paul Frields. I am willing to concede that you
might even be right Bjorn, but you have rushed to judgement before a
reasonable amount of time has been given to carry out the investigation.
Your being unfair.
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alcohol, morphine or idealism." --Carl Jung
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