Re: Security and the User experience
- From: "Karl Levinson" <levinson_k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:13:47 -0400
I agree... I don't see this as Microsoft saying "that's just the way it is,"
because Microsoft resisted putting outbound filtering in the Windows
Firewall. This optional functionality is being added at the request of
Windows users. If you don't like it, I'm sure you can disable it. Or you
can subscribe to Microsoft's OneCare, where Microsoft manages your Windows
Firewall for you. But don't ask Microsoft to remove a useful option from
Windows just because you personally don't like that option.
Like most security countermeasures, outbound firewall filtering generally
increases your security, but it can inhibit some functionality and takes
some administrative effort to maintain if you choose to enable it.
No OS can totally be secured by the manufacturer, just as no car can be made
totally safe by the manufacturer. Computers are a tool, and the user must
take at least some responsibility for the use and configuration of that
tool, or delegate that responsibility to a paid service, a paid consultant,
or to no one. There are some risks to the latter.
"Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNoSpam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thoughtful analysis and interesting proposal, but I doubt it would fly.
I watched as MS at the end of the beta for XP trimmed down the firewall
capability so that it allowed any outbound traffic. They received much
harsh
feedback for this, but basically said, amongst other things, that the user
experience with other firewalls from "popup notices" etc. was not at all
good,
etc. and that they were avoiding that. A little time passed and we are
now
back over on the other side.
If there were a central authority such as you suggest, then who funds it,
how do I know that I should actually trust it, how much does it cost me
to verify to it that what I want registered should be registered, etc..??
"Rob R. Ainscough" <robains@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I think Microsoft really need to smell the coffee here, because their
path of "that's just the way it is" does nothing for anyone involved in
the business of PC's and software development.
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