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Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed Jan 13 10:23:42 UTC 2016


jd1008:
>> I have a fundamental distrust of ALL software.
>> As far as I am concerned, there has never been an OS and it's Apps
>> that are/were trustworthy.
>>

g:
> *nix are as close as you will get for os.

What's that saying amongst NASA employees?
"There's no problem that you cannot make worse."

> moz software will never be because of attitude of hackers playing with
> software there.

That, in particular, is *the* modern problem.  Home computer hacking
(malware, viruses, etc.), used to be mostly confined to those illegally
copying and sharing discs, who you might say, "deserved it."  Though
there was some peripheral damage, such as those nitwits bringing such
discs to work and wrecking their boss' computer system.

Now, you're at risk just by looking at websites, not even attempting to
do anything dodgy.  The browser is such a fundamental part of using a
modern home computer, and probably the riskiest.  You have browsers
coded by amateurs, there probably are some black hats amongst them, and
they've consistently refused to make the browsers better at handling
errors.  i.e. Such things as not rejecting malformed pages, and trying
to make something out of the tag soup mess, regardless of the risks.
Whereas if the browser had gone, "nup, can't read that," in the first
place, the nincompoop making bad websites would have seen their errors
as they went along.

I find it difficult to browse many websites, these days.  I have the
script blocking, ad blocking stuff, to protect my sanity, and to try and
make browsing safer and more private.  But when you go to a website, you
find you have to allow half a dozen scripts, and unrelated websites,
just to get the damn page to render.

>> It's F*****d up world.

> a 7 letter curse word starting with 'F' ?

Must be deadly... ;-)


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