Getting people to say nice things about Microsoft (Linspire repo)

Alan alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu Jan 25 17:42:21 UTC 2007


> On a single-user computer there's not a whole lot of value in
> preventing yourself from being able to destroy other user's
> work - which is what you get from the effort of not having
> admin privilages all the time.

If you can destroy stuff you can do it by accident, or through a
software bug, or a misunderstanding. 
 
> Also, if you really think there are security bugs lurking in the
> programs you are running,

The biggest security hole is sitting in front of the computer, and unlike
the others that one is *very* hard to fix. Policy and tools have to
reflect that as the systems get more secure the bad guys will move their
attacks to the next weakest link - the user.

Alan




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