(apologies for the direct reply) Jim Henderson wrote:
On Wed, 06 May 2009 08:43:32 -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
Sorry, your assumptions are wrong on boht counts. A *USER* should not be put in a position of knowing what is secure or not - that is just good security practice.
It's not a question of the user being put in that position, it's (as Prasun points out) a question of the user knowing they launched an application and that application needs access to resources external to the machine.
Have you ever used a product like ZoneAlarm on Windows? That's the model they're talking about, and it's very good because it puts the user in control and gives the user information.
Zonealarm is a commercial product made by people in a country with a vested interest to snoop on everyone else in the world. What ZA itself sends "home" it doesn't tell you.. If you think you're safe with something like that on your PC, then I certainly hope you're behind a firewall managed by a network admin who is smarter then you in these matters. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org