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["Brian J. Murrell" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 12:10 +0000, corrie wrote: 
> Re #79:
> 
> But if you want a work around, then:
> 
> 1. Rename the large /etc/hosts file with all the adblock entries to something like /etc/hosts.normal
> 2. Make a small /etc/hosts file with only localhost and so on in it. I called mine /etc/hosts.minimal
> 3. Launch gwibber from a script that copies the minimal hosts file to /etc/hosts, runs gwibber in the background, then copies the normal hosts file back. 

And how praytell, is this done without root priviledges?  Oh, yes, I
see, everyone on a machine should be able to sudo so that they can be
root and have all sorts of nasty accidents that the typical practise of
preventing users from being root keeps them safe from.

Bottom line, this is one of the uglier hacks I have ever seen.  Full of
security issues as well as races.

It's really bad that this is what trying to run a functional system has
come to.  Why is such buggy software being let into stable releases?

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