On 06 May 09, 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.
Then they need to leaqrn who to ask to set it up if the application is going to complicate things that way.
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.
It "puts a user in control" allright...of nothing they could really give a crud about! Of all the customers I had when I repaired W98 (about 50 +/-), a total of one actually tried to understand how to use ZoneAlarm correctly and even why the heck it was there in the first place. The rest...I would eventually end up at their house again and see they simply made it so ZA would let everything and anything through. The reason(s) given? There was only one reason ever given by all the others - it bothered me too much! "Control" means knowing and caring what the heck one is doing with that control.
You seem to be asserting that all users are conditioned to say "OK" or "Yes" to everything.
Yes, as in my own example above.
That assertion is a false assertion, easily provable by me introducing the example of my mother, who I have trained to not just agree to anything the computer asks her.
Yay for her. One of the extremely few who actually listen...or does she? You say you've trained her, but you don't actually know she follows those rules 100% of the time, unless you're standing there 100% of the time to watch her. Either way, my 49 (my mom uses Linux, so she doesn't count) trumps your 1. -- Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” -Theodore Roosevelt 1907 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org