Re: which PC


dennis@home wrote:
"-hh" <recscuba_google@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

True or false:
- when User tries to perform the task that requires root authority,
the system prompts him for the root password, so he types it in and
off it goes.


In the past, you've suggested that the answer to the above is "True".
Is that your final answer?

You have inferred that I said that.

You have given the impression that that is your position.
But is it?

Gosh, Dennis won't answer.
Again.

Is there a useful purpose served by Dennis avoiding to answer such a
simple T/F question?
Bbesides him saving face or having to admit that he's wrong, that is.
No, there is not.


I said he can install malware.
Do you need root to do that on OS x?

If you knew the answer, you wouldn't be asking the question.


You don't need root to install and run malware AFAICS.

"AFAICS"?

The answer to your guess is that it depends. While you apparently
only perceive the issue as an utterly binary "Security Breach
Theoretically Possible - T/F" Black or White, the modern world
includes Risk Assessment and Risk Management, which understands that
there are actually many shades of gray and any absolute is an extreme
rarity. These tools can reasonably quantify the risks objectively,
so that comparative assessments can be made.

A simple example was provided a week ago that conducted a baseline
comparison of *actual* rates of security breaches for XP, Vista and
OSX.

Naturally, you rejected it. But just because you choose to blindly
stick with your archaic Black-White doesn't mean that its the correct
approach, nor that everyone else has to kowtow to your absolutist
view.



You may as well shut up as I have no interest in what you say.. you have
bored me to the point that I can't be bothered with you.

Yet by replying, your actions reveal your own words to be a lie.


FWIW, I doubt that you've ever conducted a formal Risk Assessment.
And even if you have, its even less likely that it included "death of
the product's user" as a real, objective, *and* quantified risk that
had to be addressed in the Assessment.


-hh

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