[CoLoCo] UBUNTU SURVIVAL : SAVE THY SELF

[Brett Trigg]

What about some sort of "sudo tutorial" built into Ubuntu?
Maybe something along the lines of when a user first tries to sudo, it 
gives them a warning that they have to read (indicated by entering their 
password at the end or something) that gives them a brief rundown of 
stuff like this.
Maybe something like that, along with the regex script TJ is putting 
together, would provide enough education.
Which, I think, is the primary problem regardless of OS.  Lack of 
education causes problems.

John Edwards wrote:
> Conspiracy is not necessary these days.  This crap has been going on 
> as long as I can remember.  As long as there is a popular OS, the 
> script kiddies will find ways of making people who don't know better, 
> compromise or destroy their systems. 
>
> I recall getting an email from someone off of a Usenet posting I did 
> about a spyware infestation way back in Win98 days that insisted that 
> if I told Win98 to delete the "C:\windows" directory, the system would 
> protect itself and not allow any required files to be deleted, but it 
> would remove any files that shouldn't be there, thus eliminating the 
> spyware.  Of course, I knew better, but how many people did this ass 
> take in with that line?
>
> The only problem I see with these postings, is that the bad guys will 
> turn to PM's next.  Just yesterday, I received a PM on another forum, 
> linking me to a "really cool hack for MMO's.  It was suppose to allow 
> you to hack the stats of your MMO characters, but it seemed to be just 
> a capcha (sp?) hack so the writer could create new forum logins... 
> (someone on the board had opened it up in a XP Virtual machine to see).
>
> If the script works, it would be a great deal of help in this matter.  
> PM's aren't seen by anybody but the reader as a general rule.
>
>
>
> John Edwards
>
>
>
> On Nov 28, 2007 8:12 AM, Michael TheZorch Haney < thezorch at gmail.com 
> <mailto:thezorch at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     phillip tribble wrote:
>     > "I'd like to take a moment of your time to discuss a recent
>     disturbing
>     > trend the staff has been noticing on the forums, and also take
>     this as
>     > an opportunity to raise awareness of this situation through
>     > education." - tfa
>     >
>     > http://ubuntuforums.org/announcement.php?a=54
>
>     You know its pretty sad that these people have to try to sabotage
>     people's computers because they use Ubuntu instead of Windows or some
>     other OS.  I'm no hysterical conspiracy theorist, but this is
>     something
>     I could easily see Steve Balmer doing.  Considering the kind of
>     unethical, school yard crap I've seen him pull before I wouldn't be
>     surprised at all if he was behind this.
>
>
> -- 
> Rule #1 of working in any creative field in the 21st century should 
> be: Your Fans Are Not The Enemy.
> Charlie Stross. 
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