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Re: [Fwd: Re: windows future]
From: Peter Besenbruch <prb () lava net>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:14:40 -1000
On Friday 28 August 2009 03:39:14 Thor (Hammer of God) wrote:
If the entire argument is around the default escalation behavior being "enter a password" (which they already know) vs clicking OK because you assume entering the password is more of a deterrent, then OK, but the premise of "the people I work with are too stupid to know the difference" kind of takes away from that. And one should also note that in a domain environment, the default behavior is indeed username and password. Just thought I'd throw that in as well.
It is entirely what the escalation behavior is. My objection to Vista is two-fold: Clicking OK instead of entering a password. As I have argued before, there really is a difference between clicking OK and entering a password. That brings me to my second objection. Vista puts up more escalations than Ubuntu, further exacerbating that difference. Your point about using a password to log into domains might be valid, but only in limited instances, as I would hope that the department that set up the domain would have its users not running as administrators. We basically agree on the main point: Separate user and administrator accounts are better. I wonder if Microsoft will start enforcing that? -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
Current thread:
- [Fwd: Re: windows future] Rohit Patnaik (Aug 27)
- Re: [Fwd: Re: windows future] Peter Besenbruch (Aug 27)
- Re: [Fwd: Re: windows future] Thor (Hammer of God) (Aug 27)
- Re: [Fwd: Re: windows future] Peter Besenbruch (Aug 27)
- Re: [Fwd: Re: windows future] Rohit Patnaik (Aug 27)
- Re: [Fwd: Re: windows future] Thor (Hammer of God) (Aug 27)
- Re: [Fwd: Re: windows future] Rob Thompson (Aug 27)
- Re: [Fwd: Re: windows future] Thor (Hammer of God) (Aug 28)
- Re: [Fwd: Re: windows future] Peter Besenbruch (Aug 27)
- Re: [Fwd: Re: windows future] Thor (Hammer of God) (Aug 28)
- Re: [Fwd: Re: windows future] Peter Besenbruch (Aug 28)
- Re: [Fwd: Re: windows future] Thor (Hammer of God) (Aug 28)
- Re: [Fwd: Re: windows future] Peter Besenbruch (Aug 28)
- Re: [Fwd: Re: windows future] Thor (Hammer of God) (Aug 28)
- Re: [Fwd: Re: windows future] Peter Besenbruch (Aug 28)
- Re: [Fwd: Re: windows future] Thor (Hammer of God) (Aug 27)
- Re: [Fwd: Re: windows future] Peter Besenbruch (Aug 27)
- Re: [Fwd: Re: windows future] Michal (Aug 29)
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