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Saying 'No' to an Executable Internet
Dylan Knight Rogers writes "Applications are constantly being ported for usage on the Internet - either for a viable escape from expensive software, or because it's often helpful to have an app that you can access from anywhere. Operating systems that run from the Web will be a different story."
Okay, let's analyze your post.
Such a system won't necessarily be insecure. But its level of security will depend heavily on how it is designed and implemented.
Wow. Security depends on the skill and proces by which it is implemented. I just crapped my pants at the insight.
It's no different that what we have today. Systems that aren't very well designed and poorly implemented, such as Microsoft Windows 98, are horribly insecure.
Okay, we reitterated... if it isn't designed well, it won't work well. I'm still impressed.
On the other hand, systems with a solid design and an effective development and testing process will turn out to be very secure (ala OpenBSD).
Okay... we have now established that if it IS designed well, it WILL work well.
Damn. I am humbled.
I watch crap like this get modded to +5 over and over. I am actually laughing right now at the fact that you are alreaddy modded up to +4.
However, all being said and done, I admire the way you get the sheep to follow... you should go into politics or religion.
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Have you ever heard of proofreading? The word is faze , not "phase." You have about a hundred spelling and grammar errors like that in your opinion piece whose stream-of-consciousness style seems excessive even by blog standards. You make no cogent points and only parrot the "Microsoft is teh suck, Windows users are idiots, using Linux makes you smart" line that got old years ago. I pity your English teachers for having to read your longer works.
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Well without being able to read the actual article, I can say it would have to be a load of bullocks as anyone with any understanding of the net would know we've said yes already. A lot of the most interesting content on the net is already delivered via embedded active-x controls embedded in the browser e.g flash, windows media player, real media player, etc etc.
.NET for a few years would know all about Code Access Security which has been at the core of Microsoft's .NET Framework from beginning with the one aim in mind; to make it possible for applications to run with limited priveleges (controlled by an administrator) in a partially trusted environment such as being run from an app or control from a local intranet server or from a server on the internet.
It is true though that this is a security nightmare, which is why many organisations with exceptionally tight security but a need to access the net have banned these controls. Saying no isn't the only solution though...
Those who have been developing with Microsoft