You have that backwards. Pedophiles are the group that society wants to watch burn. The group that nobody will cry for as they are marched to the stake, or the concentration camp, or the guillotine. The group that politicians use as moral grounds for passing laws based on hate and vigilantism instead of justice.

It's a slippery slope my friends.

As I replied to a similar comment below.

Do you idiots seriously believe that if the government was going to target you for surveillance, and go to the length of breaking into your home in order to bug it, that they would do so while you were there????

>> Me too. It's a hell of a lot harder to bug every man, woman, and child in the west than it is to intercept and crawl their communications

You don't need to do that.
You just put a worm or backdoor in all these peoples smartphones :)

>> bug every man, woman, and child in the west

The east attempted that before '89, didn't work so well

...Install Ghostery because privacy... Install NoScript because many reasons... Realize Adblock Plus is now useless.... Deinstall it.

Karmashock, you speak as one interested enough to comment, but not interested enough to know jack shit. A delicate balance for you, ja? I like the link you Science and Reason link, so thanks! .... but I'm trans, and although I'm successfully working as a contractor developer, I'm also thinking "maybe this is what people really say behind my back". But then I think ... "the people who matter to me don't think like this, so maybe this guy is full of shit". What do you think? It all sounds like this is a big outrage to you, where the smart people are handling it without a glitch.

Thing is, we're awesome, problem is that we're not awesome in a way that will satisfy most NTs feelings; and most of the world is run on nothing but the feelings of NTs. For instance, very few people get fired due to incompetence, they get fired due to the bad feelings that their incompetence causes; which in some organizations is avoidable (mainly in governmental and nonprofit organizations, or volunteer/nonpaid positions), allowing incompetent people to keep their position. Autistic people on the other hand, we often get fired because we don't fit in with the other employees; no matter if we are competent in all other aspects of the job.

Personally, I think it is a very real possibility that this is by intent. Not by Poettering himself, he is just a clueless pansy full of himself. But he is perfect for this. He is far, far to incompetent to even realize that software has to be simple in order to be secure. He does has a proven track-record of producing buggy, complex software. He has absolutely no experience with producing secure software. He is known to be resistant to advice and learning. He is known to not work well with others. He thinks he knows it all and has it all.

In one sentence: Perfect for creating a complex monster that will never, ever be secure.

My money is on the NSA and others (remember, Red Hat is mostly funded by the US military) having selected Poettering to sabotage Linux security. This is actually the main reason why it will never find its way on any of my systems. Having the TLAs being the greatest threat to security and privacy is one thing. Inviting them in is something else.

How many professional SysAdmins and enterprise users are regularly tinkering with their init settings? It is usually a set it and forget it type of thing.

As I see it, this is just general IT Ranting because something is new.

"Well, do you actually take on board the concerns of system administrators and enterprise users?" - what do you class RHEL as?

I'm offended by your view point. Please take it back now.

Are you going to go all "no mainstream Scotsman" on us now?

Perhaps you never saw Naked Gun 2 1/2? Team America? If I really felt like it, I could dig up quite a few comedies where we assassinate the living leader of a country that is considered to be the bad guy. Strangely, you think you're unique and this occasion was unique. Not going to go on about free speech but the irony is pretty intense when you consider the lack of human rights in North Korea.