R help - Feb 2019 - I'm Working On A Data Security Article - Quick Question

Hi,


I have a quick question for you about a page on your site that briefly 
mentions a data security topic,
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-May/162561.html.


I plan on writing a few guest authored articles in the next month or so 
that talk about data security & breaches, are you ok with me possibly 
linking to your above-mentioned webpage? 


I'm not entirely sure which sites I may link to or reference in the 
articles yet, but I'd like to have a few different options to choose 
from... so please let me know what you think when you have a moment to let 
me know. Whatever you decide, thanks for your time and I don't expect a 
response if you're not interested. Thanks.


Murris



PS: If this question was a disturbance, click this 
<http://ec2-52-26-194-35.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/u?u=35c7bbaa-48f6-4968-a738-87d4e024a4b9>
and I won't email you again.

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On 2/11/19 3:57 AM, Murris Johnson wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have a quick question for you about a page on your site that briefly
> mentions a data security topic,
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-May/162561.html.
> 
> 
> I plan on writing a few guest authored articles in the next month or so
> that talk about data security & breaches, are you ok with me possibly
> linking to your above-mentioned webpage?
> 
> 
> I'm not entirely sure which sites I may link to or reference in the
> articles yet, but I'd like to have a few different options to choose
> from... so please let me know what you think when you have a moment to let
> me know. Whatever you decide, thanks for your time and I don't expect a
> response if you're not interested. Thanks.
Are you pulling our legs?

Personally I haven't got a clue what you are asking.

Also, please note that r-help is a world wide "community" with
hundreds
of thousands of members.  (I am but one of this large and unruly mob.) 
It is not a single entity or "site".  (There is a formal organisation 
that runs the R show, but you are not really addressing this formal 
organisation.)

The URL that you refer to is a joke!  Apparently some idiotic Windoze 
antiviral software once identified the R executable for Windoze as being 
a virus.  This is not to taken seriously.

cheers,

Rolf Turner

-- 
Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276

Just read the complete thread. 
That will clarify.

Nothing wrong with R or RGUI; the virus checker is wrong.
regards,

Berend Hasselman
> On 10 Feb 2019, at 15:57, Murris Johnson <murrjohn321 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have a quick question for you about a page on your site that briefly 
> mentions a data security topic,
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-May/162561.html.
> 
> 
> I plan on writing a few guest authored articles in the next month or so 
> that talk about data security & breaches, are you ok with me possibly 
> linking to your above-mentioned webpage? 
> 
> 
> I'm not entirely sure which sites I may link to or reference in the 
> articles yet, but I'd like to have a few different options to choose 
> from... so please let me know what you think when you have a moment to let 
> me know. Whatever you decide, thanks for your time and I don't expect a
> response if you're not interested. Thanks.
> 
> 
> Murris
> 
> 
> 
> PS: If this question was a disturbance, click this 
>
<http://ec2-52-26-194-35.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/u?u=35c7bbaa-48f6-4968-a738-87d4e024a4b9>
and I won't email you again.
> 
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

????? To your question about, "are you ok with me possibly linking to"
a 2008 thread on r-help subject: "[R] R is a virus, spyware or malware 
(gasp!)", I think that would be considered a friendly gesture PROVIDED 
you honestly portrayed the conclusion that any checker for malicious 
software that flags R or RGUI (or RStudio, now, also), is likely wrong:? 
This is free, open-source software with probably millions of users 
worldwide and currently almost 14,000 contributed packages available on 
the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN), and all the code is checked 
on multiple platforms several times per week, including for malicious 
code.? Any such code is isolated and removed.? "CRAN Repository 
Policy"[1] includes, "The code and examples provided in a package
should
never do anything which might be regarded as malicious or anti-social", 
and provides several "examples from past experience."


 ????? Hope this helps.
 ????? Spencer Graves


[1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html


On 2019-02-11 03:53, Berend Hasselman wrote:
> Just read the complete thread.
> That will clarify.
>
> Nothing wrong with R or RGUI; the virus checker is wrong.
> regards,
>
> Berend Hasselman
>
>> On 10 Feb 2019, at 15:57, Murris Johnson <murrjohn321 at
gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I have a quick question for you about a page on your site that briefly
>> mentions a data security topic,
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-May/162561.html.
>>
>>
>> I plan on writing a few guest authored articles in the next month or so
>> that talk about data security & breaches, are you ok with me
possibly
>> linking to your above-mentioned webpage?
>>
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure which sites I may link to or reference in the
>> articles yet, but I'd like to have a few different options to
choose
>> from... so please let me know what you think when you have a moment to
let
>> me know. Whatever you decide, thanks for your time and I don't
expect a
>> response if you're not interested. Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Murris
>>
>>
>>
>> PS: If this question was a disturbance, click this
>>
<http://ec2-52-26-194-35.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/u?u=35c7bbaa-48f6-4968-a738-87d4e024a4b9>
and I won't email you again.
>>
>> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

On 11/02/2019 4:26 a.m., Rolf Turner wrote:
> On 2/11/19 3:57 AM, Murris Johnson wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I have a quick question for you about a page on your site that briefly
>> mentions a data security topic,
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-May/162561.html.
>>
>>
>> I plan on writing a few guest authored articles in the next month or so
>> that talk about data security & breaches, are you ok with me
possibly
>> linking to your above-mentioned webpage?
>>
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure which sites I may link to or reference in the
>> articles yet, but I'd like to have a few different options to
choose
>> from... so please let me know what you think when you have a moment to
let
>> me know. Whatever you decide, thanks for your time and I don't
expect a
>> response if you're not interested. Thanks.
> 
> Are you pulling our legs?
No, he's a spammer who clearly hasn't read the link he's asking
about.
There are probably thousands of them.

Duncan Murdoch
> 
> Personally I haven't got a clue what you are asking.
> 
> Also, please note that r-help is a world wide "community" with
hundreds
> of thousands of members.  (I am but one of this large and unruly mob.)
> It is not a single entity or "site".  (There is a formal
organisation
> that runs the R show, but you are not really addressing this formal
> organisation.)
> 
> The URL that you refer to is a joke!  Apparently some idiotic Windoze
> antiviral software once identified the R executable for Windoze as being
> a virus.  This is not to taken seriously.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Rolf Turner
>