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i had the older version of sudo myself so posted the manual style fix on arch for anyone interested:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/dimwhn/how_to_detect...

my post on this topic from: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/dhpbml/anytim...

i still get lost once in a while but the cool thing about it is i have lots of help online

to me that's the real big difference between say proprietary software and opensource.

i grew up using Microsoft and even used to sell some of their small networks 'back in the day'

my boss was an Authorized Dealer held more certs than i can count so i've been around M$

nobody has, but if you were to ask me what happened with M$ software i'd say a few things:

when the cellular industry became the ISP that changed the motive of software design and it

changed the business model for software companies. consider the fact win98 --> win2000 was basically

a lean machine, not perfect but solid for the most part, again tho the internet wasn't a big factor

heck even Bill Gates didn't think the net would do much

2. when cellular carriers became the ISP this changed the business model, now folks had the net in their pocket,

including a microphone, video camera and gps unit etc. metadata and dataminig became the new wild west

this impacted the business model for software companies simply because they were now in a position to lose money

if they did not add 'xyz feature' whereas when the net was basically just getting off the ground revenue was

predominantly from tech support, service contract agreements and license distrobution etc.

still the 'unseen' problem that not even M$ could forsee or anyone else really was this:

before the net took off, if there was a problem with security, well the IOTs wasn't as pervasive, meaning

stuff wasn't connected as much, a 'hole' was limited, and yet another thing to consider - geeks weren't

everywhere back in the late 90s whereas today due to the rise of smartphones and apps programming society

has put her 'tech boots on' so the average kid down the street might be a semi pro 'hacker or programmer'

which translates into 'the security flaw can be a bigger problem'

3. to add on to #2 proprietary software doesn't invite 'patching problems' like opensource, when the net

wasn't boomen the last decent release was Win7, if M$ would have taken Win7, polished it up, released the

source code, invited a community to harden it, patch it, it would have taken a lot of pressure off of the

Microsoft employees, to ask any single company to basically be the end all for an operating system's security

to fix all the problems including drivers is daunting, even on a good day, even when things are going good

so that has an impact on the actual security of an operating system and that is tied directly to the market

a company's value on the stock market, find a hole, report it, someone might lose a contract, lose money

today the inherit value in an operating system is basically in the data that gets mined, meaning the average

stock config of any mass produced computer say from walmart or amazon has a lot of 'bloat' basically 'features'

that drill the customer to set up xyz accounts, once you tie your home network and cellphones to the OS you just

increased the value of the data collected, so that's a problem for 'security' because security now will go only

as far as it can stretch but not break any revenue streams 'built in' to the OS, it's like home wifi is strong

enough to keep the local network traffic 'verified and aassist prosecution' of a court case if you violate a law

it's not really there to protect you, privacy and security often means someone is losing money one way or another

linux is not immune to any of this, i look at it this way, do the best you can with the software you love because

that is really what the purpose of it is supposed to do, help us connect and get stuff done, i think what M$ did

in the beginning along with apple and the early founders of linux is just amazing, i really mean that, any company

that can and did survive for a few years did more right than wrong, to this day i remember the first time i moved

a mouse on screen, i remember the first time i saw a video game and i could control a square on the screen, i remember

the arcades, i'm still in awe of it today, so my hats off to all the programmers and engineers out there

i hang out with the penguin today, i watched Revolution OS years ago and instantly joined the cult

don't know ya Cooper just did a quick google on ya and viewed the reddit post, from what i gather you made the world a better place. thank you.

really good job and congrats have a grammar guru go over your site to touch up on the English and i'd maybe not tell everyone your numbers for 'income' so much, talk about you and your journey to get where you are at today, nothing wrong stating income for shareholders etc but you are not on the stock market and you don't need to 'sell your success' nobody cares how much money you make or don't make, especially if they don't have a clue as to who you are and the why of it. my two cents ;)

you have heard this a million times and know what it means but here it is again: LIFE IS SHORT and it can be shorter than you think it will be. your time is just that, your time. so go do what you want to do, and if it is wrong well you tried it. that's what really harms folks imho, it's not the paycheck but what you would do for free that matters the most. if someone is happy flipping a burger, not only is that honorable work but to the folks that like burgers, they get their food made by someone who loves flipping burgers. it could be you are 'burned out' per say and who knows, maybe working for yourself or getting into a new field or something as mundane as gardening or doing something 'outside' might be just what the doctor ordered.

gonna take a wild guess at this coz yeah it's a good question, but basically my guess is if there's a security problem the community, depending on the OS or distro, probably puts that out in the open, then the community fixes it. say there is a 'driver problem' with xyz chipset, same deal, enough folks bring attention to it through the community someone with too much coffee in them probably starts fixing it then releases it for review etc. if you look at say some of the builds from Arch Linux User Repository or "AUR" feedback on their site often brings attention to the maintainer, but again it all depends on who all is maintaining xyz MAKEPKG where it pulls from say github, who is behind xyz software say at github. my own opinion on this is well just my own, and yeah as they say 'could be wrong' but one scenario that i think has hurt companies configd like microsoft is the simple fact their business model put them in a bad position to not use the biggest resource they actually had: their customers. but remember that company came up in a time where the average joe on the street wasn't a geek, didn't have the world wide web in his/her pocket. today, that's not the case, the kid down the street might find a 'hole' or 'problem' with say linux and report it to whoever runs the distro he or she was goofing with. the other thing is it's almost impossible to ask any one single company, a small group of programmers hired by xyz company to find stuff wrong with software that goes around the world. what i'm getting at is for example the way you may look at, use, or implement your distro even if we both were on the same distro could be completely different than the way i use it. the other problem is again the business model, when you find a problem with linux well no stock prices go down, meaning a 'company' doesn't lose money, if anything it adds value to the release of the software. i'm not a guru and one of the reasons i love linux is because well, i'm not a guru. if i have a problem or fix something till i break it, either google, irc or any number of the forums online, social media, i got a 'tech' usually a message away. all the help i've had over the years with linux, even if i won the lottery no way i'd be able to pay everyone back with all the help they gave to me for free. i'm not anti microsoft or anti proprietary software or even anti make money but yeah at times sometimes the business models need changed for a company so their products can keep up with their customers. windows 98 second edition and windows 2000 plus windows 7 was some good software, lots of talented folks at microsoft.

get a vpn and then google different linux seaches from different countries, brings back stuff ya probably never saw

the more i think about it the more i notice that a lot of 'security' is actually used to verify or 'add value' to the data that gets mined meaning 'verified' traffic holds more value than non verified traffic so that might explain a reason why security protocols on routers and other common devices are not as secure as they could be. you could note that this is also a form of 'security against you' meaning a 'proof' for a court.

i don't know what the answer is to this simply because of all the variables i consider, especially the emergence of drones. how will this be secured to a degree that few can interfere with package deliveries, the abuse of surveillance and what space around a property is actually protected. as example you can drive by in a vehicle collect AP information and the average geek can obtain access so it will be with drones.

if you really want to get interesting, think about the things drones can do, such as compromise crime scenes with planted evidence.

datamining or collecting metadata is a big business which may soon require governments world wide to protect and treat their citizen's data in a manner like a utility such as water and electric. the consequences of large scale data collecting are not yet understood but we have witnessed the real world impacts of cyberwarfare. most citizens world wide do not comprehend the amount of data they share nor the amount of effort brought forth by the telecommunication industry, silicon valley and government.

with rare exception no individual has increased their security by giving leverage to another individual or entity.