Viewfinity CEO Says Many Computer Users Are Overprivileged (Video)

This isn't about your place in society, but about user privileges on your computers and computer networks. The more privileges, the more risk of getting hacked and having Bad People do Bad Things to your company's computers, right? So Leonid Shtilman's company, Viewfinity, offers SaaS that helps you grant system privileges in a more granular manner than just allowing "root" and "user" accounts with nothing in between.

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[Hatta]

Another useless slashvertisement. People don't use the granular permissions that exist already (e.g. ACLs), no one's going to bother with even finer grained control. The problem isn't granularity, it's a completely understandable dislike of spending time managing permissions.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Not just dislike, but cost (in terms of time spent managing it, and time spent with people twiddling their thumbs waiting for someone to give them permission to something they need to do their job). Granularity always comes down to a balance between practicality and security. Lock down the super secret stuff.. apply reasonable rules to the less critical stuff.. throw the office lottery pool list on the wiki.

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[lgw]

Plus, this company has just missed the ongoing paradigm shift (hate that phrase - someone have a better one?). End users should have full control over their (untrusted) endpoints, becuase we won't be storing anything important there, and any incoming files will be handled with appropriate suspicion.

End user endpoints simply need to be outside the "zone of trust" in the modern world, partly because anything a user touches should be assumed to be infected, and partly because it's time to stop caring what device the user likes - traditional PC, thin client, iPad, phone, whatever they like as long as it has a browser for the web-based software and a desktop virtualization client for all the rest.

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[SJHillman]

Most of what I'm seeing there we already achieve through Active Directory without any third party solutions. Any company that only implements two levels of permissions (root and user) is either stuck in the 80s or else only has one user.

slashdot editors: please read

[rgbrenner]

Your site.. feel free to disagree.. but I think you're making a huge mistake with these ads.

There has to be some separation between the ads and the content. No one is going to visit a site explicitly to see ads. And if the content becomes the advertising, users will leave.

I can't think of a single successful site that has advertising as the content. Nytimes, washpost, wsj, digg, ... There's always separation between the content and the ads.

Cruising way past sad....

[atriusofbricia]

This is the second one of these non-stories posted in as many days. I, like many people, have been reading and posting to Slashdot for years. I'm starting to wonder exactly why I continue to do so....

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[keytoe]

I clicked through looking for a solution to blocking these myself. There doesn't seem to be a way to block them in the user settings that I can see. Anyone had any luck?

I don't have high hopes since these are pretty obviously revenue generators for the site. It just seems incongruous to offer users a 'block ads' option and then turn around to make these slashvertisements unblockable.

To be honest, if there were an option to 'block all videos' I'd take that. I dislike this trend of locking information in a format I can't search, skim, read at work, use while also listening to music, etc.

Sorry for the off topic.

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[FunPika]

The biggest offender appears to be Roblimo, and I never see anything of value from him, so I exclude him in my options (I only noticed this story because I looked at the front page on a computer I wasn't logged into).