I need my access to the Ubuntu forums restored

Ralf Mardorf silver.bullet at zoho.com
Fri Feb 3 21:32:48 UTC 2017


On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 22:16:20 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>Please button post, top posting has the touch of business mails.
>
>Do you have any concerns about privacy? If so, I guess you are lost, as
>long as you want to use the Internet.
>
>Do you have any concerns regarding security?
>
>If you don't care about privacy, just about security, consider to use a
>free as in beer, no cellphone purchase required, Zoho account and run
>everything inside a container-sandbox-alike-thingy.
>
>I guess Oli could provide hints regarding snappy and Tom regarding
>Linux containers. Unfortunately this isn't my domain, at least not with
>a GUI involved. Assuming you should use command line only to access the
>Internet, then a systemd-nspawn container might be secure enough. I
>don't care about security, but I'm using systemd-nspawn a lot for
>command line, but with a fishy workaround regarding resolver.conf :D.
>
>Seriously, the most easiest workaround is getting a new free as in beer
>email account from another provider, without taking care about privacy
>and security.
>
>Email accounts are for absolutely free, they just suffer from privacy
>and/or security issues.
>
>

Actually my mail wasn't well thought out, regarding email account
security no sandbox, no container approach done by you could improve
security. Simply don't provide information, if you "sign up for
free". Actually criminals hack the provider's servers, not your Ubuntu
install ;). My apologies, I had an Italien herb liqueur too much.





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