Re: Windows Genuine Advantage -- Indeed?

David Dyer-Bennet
Multics far predates either, and is more secure than
either.

The only secure environments are very modern operating
systems. Nothing was written to face the challenges of
a fully connected world.

Trusted programs is mostly a pretty risky idea anyway
(suid being the most common Unix instance).

Suid is an unworkably bad idea. We now have better
methods.

It's not acceptable to require user interaction for
every file open for write. And we can already control
where it rights with ACL. I think you're proposing a
cure that's worse than the disease you see, when
there's already a *real* cure available.

I don't think you understand "my" proposal - which is to
say I don't think you understand modern concepts for
dealing with the modern problems that we now face.

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