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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Are you freaking kidding me, talking about security on a home computer when using external hard drives?
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Actually, I don't care if your machine gets penetrated. I do care that it joins the army of bots sending spam, running DDS attacks, and generally making life unpleasant.
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In fact, I committed changes to the calibre-portable.sh launcher, that are designed to ensure all new files created under the scope of that launcher are created 777, in order that you can actually use the darn thing in the first place! Without making fstab rules or patching udisks-daemon to stop mounting vfat as noexec...
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Without looking at the patch, I hope that the executables are 755 or better 555 to prevent drive-by infection.
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Originally Posted by bambuko
Don't worry - you got the idea 
It is meant to be portable 
There is always some guy in Linux forum that will spread doom and gloom.
We are grown up adults having fun.
Go away doom mongers  |
Well, this discussion got personal and insulting faster than most. Hope you have lots of fun.