On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:40 PM, James McKenzie jjmckenzie51@earthlink.net wrote:
You really underestimate the stupidity of people.
I expect that people will do utterly stupid things, there's no two ways around that, it's human nature. That being the case, I think there are still opportunities for providing a safe computing experience without compromising the user's convenience. Case in point: the sandbox used by the Chromium web browser. It provides a modicum of security without getting in the way. I can easily imagine classes of windows apps, say, games, fitting nicely into a sandboxed wine environment. Sure, getting the networking right would be a challenge, but for at least casual games, it ought to be quite doable. The key is to require no user choices -- just do the right thing by default. Then the user's level of education or computer skills don't matter. - Dan