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Viewfinity CEO Says Many Computer Users Are Overprivileged (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the striking-a-balance-between-extremes dept.

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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  1. Slashvertisment by Hatta · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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    1. Re:Slashvertisment by lgw · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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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    2. Re:Slashvertisment by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Funny

      There seems to be a bug. I have the 'Ads Disabled' checkbox ticked, but I still see this big ad right in the top-centre of the front page.

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  2. slashdot editors: please read by rgbrenner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Re:But then you overdo it... by DickBreath · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's okay to require use of the root password. I never forget my root password because on my WiFi I make the root password also be the broadcast SSID. Problem solved.

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  4. Re:Is he not aware of Windows? by sqlrob · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not quite. Not even Administrator is root. LocalSystem is root.