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RE: standards status in the industry - opinion?
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:59:09 +1300
Stephen Villano to Drsolly (?):
Hmmmm, I know a boatload of users who format floppies every day.
And they use format.com for doing that, rather than being mouse-jockeys in Explorer?? AFAIK there is no way to tell Explorer _from the commandline used to invoke it_ that you want it to run and format a drive without providing any user interaction. That's why you would want to protect "dumb users" from format.com (and by "dumb" I don't mean "outright stupid" but "know less about what the nasties might be able to do than I know" -- i.e. about 99.999999% of the planet).
Maybe we have to think the unthinkable, and aim for an OS that isn't general-purpose.Not general-purpose: Corporate for "Not for us, we need bang for the buck". If you're uncertain as to the meaning of THAT, look up OS/2...
One would have hoped for a more, ahhh "informed" view from the military, but at least you aren't in the part of the US military that had an aircraft carrier dead in the water for several hours due to its dependence on NT machines for some critical functions though, so maybe there's some room for hope there... 8-) Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Drsolly (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Drsolly (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Nick FitzGerald (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Blue Boar (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Nick FitzGerald (Jan 08)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Blue Boar (Jan 08)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Drsolly (Jan 08)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Blue Boar (Jan 08)
- RE: standards status in the industry - opinion? Stephen Villano (Jan 08)
- RE: standards status in the industry - opinion? Drsolly (Jan 08)
- RE: standards status in the industry - opinion? Nick FitzGerald (Jan 08)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Nick FitzGerald (Jan 08)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Barrie Dempster (Jan 08)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Nick FitzGerald (Jan 08)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Barrie Dempster (Jan 08)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 08)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Barrie Dempster (Jan 09)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? James Kehl (Jan 09)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Barrie Dempster (Jan 09)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Drsolly (Jan 08)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Nick FitzGerald (Jan 08)