On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:25:54AM -0000, Tony wrote: This is offtopic, but... > Actually Windows does exactly the same thing. e.g. the 'Network Service' and 'Local Service' accounts. See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/midsizebusiness/topics/networksecurity/securingaccounts.mspx The point is that rendering active content is default, and running everything as administrator is default (in fact, most Windows userland software needs to be installed and run as administrator) -- the technology and the culture conspire to give us the 250 Mzombie Internet experience we love. > People seem to forget that the original and worst worm outbreak ever - that efffectively shut down the internet for days was on UNIX... That was a long time ago. Unix is diverse, and most installations are now secure by default. The technology and the culture work together, and lower profile is one of the key points that diversity is good, monoculture is bad. > Windows might have its problems but they are not unique. You're correct only in theory. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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