Is ubuntu another rootkit?
I am sorry to ask this question, but after using ubuntu for a long time, and experiencing the ubuntu distribution, I felt a strong believe that ubuntu is used for a rootkit like activity.
1) ubuntu is not distributed preinstalled with a firewall.
2) security meajures are so weakly configured in user access control, in example, there are so many authentication schemes come with different packages, and when you uninstall one of them and want to continue in the traditional way like uninstalling sudo and trying to use su, many necessary packages are also removed because of dependencies and it turns distribution into something not much functioning as you intend.
3) you don't need to know a root pass, you are always root, with the preconfigured way of sudo which only askes my own password, which is always less hard to guess instead of a root password. This is something open to debate, but it is, from my point of view, definitely a way to make users feel they are running in a secure environment, although they are not!
4) There are many authentication schemes like sudo, kdsudo, gksudo, policykit, etc., which in general act inconsistent between each of them. I configure sudo to ask root password, but another one installs packages with synaptic with still my user password!
5) Please have a look at this link: http://
So I want to ask a very serious question, is there an internal audit mechanism that would prevent people to integrate rootkit like activity to ubuntu distribution? How do you determine the developers and be sure they don't act for their own special secret purposes?
Configuring a secure operating system insecure does not make someone guilty, right? It is always easy to deny ubuntu was not intended to act as a vulnerable operating system for intruders when you choose insecure settings that are reconfigurable to be made secure.
This question is not for blaming everyone on the community, however, I have questions about ubuntu. Also, I didn't mention about the political decisions that are related with selection of keyboard layouts and country specific options...
Well, for what UK based canonical is serving for?!? It is not clear for me (or maybe it is much clear for now on)...
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