[ILUG] Security: Was Naive ADSL/WiFi questions (long (sorry!))?

[Belgarath]

On Saturday 23 June 2007 10:39:21 Michael Watterson wrote:

> Some silly ejit will of course add a Linux equivalent of Autorun if
> Ubuntu gets popular... I have mixed feelings about the Automount that
> seems to happen nowadays on Linux desktop (SD cards, USB drives and
> CDs). Is this safe and where do you turn it off?

It is safe because it does not execute any programs (at least automount 
itself) there were some attempts to run autorun.sh from mounted media I do 
not know if it is still happening. In majority right now dbus is used to find 
that new media are there and to mount them and usually it is done by your 
window manager or part of thereof.