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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[TheRaven64]

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[rgbrenner]

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Re:But then you overdo it...

[DickBreath]

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.