Reported by Svein W.
When setting up a forum, we need to think about the fact that practically everyone with an internet connection can reach it, and cultures varies greatly.
Also, discussion can become a bit more heated on the internet than in real life. So a bad words filter can be a good thing to have.
But there are also other uses for it.
In support forums, you will get questions from people that do not know much about computers, and some of them trust blindly on the answers they get in forums. Sadly, there are people that give dangerous suggestions on purpose - a different kind of malware! Something like this is not unthinkable:
- Open a console window by clicking on the Start-menu, choose "Run...", type cmd and press enter
- Type format c:
- Press enter
Luckily, most people will catch this particular one, but in Linux, you have a lot more situations that could be potentially dangerous. It would be nice to add these to a filter that would either replace them with ***** or replace with the same text in red and add *** DANGEROUS COMMAND *** after it.
Reported by Svein W.
When setting up a forum, we need to think about the fact that practically everyone with an internet connection can reach it, and cultures varies greatly.
Also, discussion can become a bit more heated on the internet than in real life. So a bad words filter can be a good thing to have.
But there are also other uses for it.
In support forums, you will get questions from people that do not know much about computers, and some of them trust blindly on the answers they get in forums. Sadly, there are people that give dangerous suggestions on purpose - a different kind of malware! Something like this is not unthinkable:
Luckily, most people will catch this particular one, but in Linux, you have a lot more situations that could be potentially dangerous. It would be nice to add these to a filter that would either replace them with ***** or replace with the same text in red and add *** DANGEROUS COMMAND *** after it.