[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Re: Re: Moving the audio plugins to libmpcodecs - design of plugin management

Eric Lammerts eric at lammerts.org
Thu Jun 20 12:00:43 CEST 2002


On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > If your network is secure (like mine at home), it doesn't matter at
> > all. All we need to do is disable it by default, and mention in the
> > manpage that enabling it has security implications.
>
> "Firewalled off from everything" is not my definition of secure.
> That's called crippled.

If I'd want to control mplayer from outside my home you could call it
"crippled". But I don't, so it's not.

> "Secure" is not running crap that yields access to people it shouldn't.

Well, in my case it clearly doesn't. The same goes for NFS. It's
totally insecure, but I have no problems running it behind a firewall.

Eric




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