[techtalk] About prettyphysicslady on the linuxchix techtalk list...

[Amy]

You say 'back door', most of us say 'recovery feature'. 
Ah well. Most of us consider backdoors to be those that can
accessed *remotely* since that is what truly counts in 
most of our lives. As we have continued to say ad nauseum,
there is no such thing a *truly* secure machine if a good
system admin or hacker is at the console, root workaround or not. 
And Cisco wouldn't put the same feature in it's IOS 
if it weren't a FEATURE that was needed when you have
console access. But quite frankly, I am getting sick of this
argument, and just want it to stop. This ain't a security 
hole, folks. I guess if you don't like the feature, then fix
it. I just don't understand why this person doesn't take 
all of this advice she has been given and just secure her
darn machine and stop bothering us about why it isn't as
secure as Windows (bwahaha). Take it up with the distro
developers. Or even better, make you own distro where it
isn't the default setting! That's the great thing about
Linux...we, the people,  have access to the code and can
do such things. 

Amy 
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