Re: [fw-wiz] The home user problem returns

From: Jim Seymour (jseymour_at_linxnet.com)
Date: 09/14/05

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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:50:38 -0400 (EDT)

    Mason Schmitt <mason@schmitt.ca> wrote:
    >
    [snip]
    >
    > I don't think people should have to know much about computer security,
    > "security apps" like anti-virus, firewalls, etc. I think that computers
    > should be ubiquitous, non intrusive and largely trustworthy. The
    > problem is that this is so far from current reality as to be easily
    > confused with fantasy.
    [snip]

    As long a companies like Microsoft continue to sell a general purpose
    operating system to the public, much of it poorly thought-out and/or
    poorly designed and/or poorly coded, complete with applications that
    are "designed" with a fine disregard for what those of us with more
    sense regard as "security boundaries," representing it all as an easy,
    user-friendly, maintenance-free "experience," this will not change.

    Jim
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