Re: [Full-Disclosure] M$ - so what should they do?

From: Todd Burroughs (todd_at_hostopia.com)
Date: 06/22/04

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    To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 02:37:22 -0400 (EDT)

    On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

    > > No way! Am I the only person who still uses "copy con filename.txt" to
    > > create scripts and such at the command line? Please tell me I'm not?
    >
    > I think the intent is that "con as a special filename in every directory" has
    > to go away - you'd still be able to use
    >
    > copy c:\something\con filename.txt
    >
    > (Remember, us Unix people have had to use /dev/tty and /dev/null and /dev/zero
    > for 3 decades, and never minded that 'tty', 'null', and 'zero' didn't exist in
    > every single directory)....

    Does this really matter? On UNIX I can can use /dev/whatever in any
    directory and I have to have that access to make UNIX work. Not having
    /dev/null available in every directory breaks things, I rely on it
    being there... The OS controls my access, I assume Windows does the
    same thing.

    Maybe having "magic" names that don't start with '/dev' (i.e., some known
    prefix) is a mistake, but I think that's a minor issue.

    Personally, I think the design of the registry and having apps like a GUI
    and web browser intricately tied into the OS is a very bad design and is
    at the core of the problem. Another is that MS is a marketing company,
    so they do things to gain and keep market share. That's been discussed
    to no end ;-)

    Microsoft would come a long way, very easily, in security if they made it
    so that you usually run things as a user, not "root" or "Administrator".
    Lindows has this wrong and if it gets popular, it will have similar
    problems. Unfortunately for MS, if they make things harder, Linux starts
    to look easier...

    Todd

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