04-15-2016, 03:02 AM
If you value pragmatism over ideology, then my anecdote may convince you:
It's no secret that Cuberite is not yet stable, and it might have security vulnerabilities. Wise Gnu/Linux server owners should probably run it as a dedicated user, and not as the their default, daily used user. I typically run it as the default user when testing, but my pc is firewalled and no outside users can connect, so security is not a problem.
I wouldn't want it to contact the net and I never expected it to do so. After updating WorldEdit, I found out it was unexpectedly connecting to the net. I am a security-conscious guy, and I wouldn't want a potentially unsecure program to connect to the net as the default user, and it did exactly that, without asking for my permission.
It's no secret that Cuberite is not yet stable, and it might have security vulnerabilities. Wise Gnu/Linux server owners should probably run it as a dedicated user, and not as the their default, daily used user. I typically run it as the default user when testing, but my pc is firewalled and no outside users can connect, so security is not a problem.
I wouldn't want it to contact the net and I never expected it to do so. After updating WorldEdit, I found out it was unexpectedly connecting to the net. I am a security-conscious guy, and I wouldn't want a potentially unsecure program to connect to the net as the default user, and it did exactly that, without asking for my permission.