IE comes in the desktop, why use anything else? it does an okay job...
It doen't do an ok job. I'm forced to use IE at my job, and it crashes a lot. And this is the ultimate version with all the imaginable patches applied. It's really annoying!
I disabled ActiveX controls because I don't trust them a bit. A lot of security problems in IE involved ActiveX controls in web pages. Why should I trust binary code sent to me by a Web page? But the damn browser has to show me a popup everytime I open a page that happens to have ActiveX in it, warning me the page has an ActiveX and I have disabled that feature. I mean, I know I disabled the fucking feature! That's very very annoying. This is just a way of forcing people to enable ActiveX controls in pages, because nobody wants to put up with the damned popup! Then web developers can happily fill their pages with that shit, creating a completely locked-in MS-Internet.
My point is, IE doesn't do an OK job. Microsoft has stopped all their R&D on IE and they limit themselves to create some security patches. Currently, Mozilla beats the shit out of IE.
As a junior, I worked in the Oracle IT department, and MS Access was forbidden in any computer in there. I found it really weird, because at the time I thought Access was a pretty useful tool. It still is, at home, I mean.
Later I understood the reasons for forbidding Access. I worked for many customers who had their backoffices full of really shitty applications built on top of Access, Excel and VBA. I mean, they had their whole business built on that! More than a couple times I had to debug horrible stuff made by the local programmer wannabe, usually a financial or sales guy with no knowledge whatsoever of computer engineering, who learned a little bit of VBA and started coding away, turning his office in an intricate mess of redundant data, scattered files, and very shitty VB code.
Even worse is when some company has its customer database in Access, and each employee in the sales department has a local copy that they update regularly until nobody can track accurate information about anything anymore. Then every guy starts giving the others his password so they can read his files! Help!
And when we tell the manager their stuff is completely unsupportable and propose that they buy a suitable application or have a custom one built, the guy starts crying like a baby about the price of it. Sooner or later they will have to make that decision, but only after spending thousands in support, calling us every week to customise a little shit here or solve a little bug there.
Not trying to put you down, though. If you work with VBA, and it works, my congratulations. You must be a pro.
That's what we get by having corporations managing the Internet infraestructure instead of a public service.
Some people talk about censorship, but if the corporations actually have the nerve to do something like this, whow long does it take until censorship sets in?
Wow, you have studied your patriotic lesson. Your speech is full of patriotic cliches. I totally disagree with your points of view. And Muslims are not the devil, you know? Most of them are just common people, like you and me.
This could be a very long argument, but it would be off-topic. I would only like to say that UN (imperfect as it is) represent ALL the World, and if Israel and the USA are against the rest of the World, then something must be wrong with you guys. If someone should rule the World, i'd rather that it be an assembly of all nations, than the USA.
Nobody wants to destablise you, mister. You sound paranoid. Most people in the World just wants to have a job and raise their children, just like any average American does. Your government tries to frighten you with bullshit like the rest of the world is trying to eat you. Don't buy that crap. Do you at least know anything of the rest of the world?
USA have a GREAT LOT of problems with human rights. You should be a less of a bigot and try to get little bit better informed. Your corporate media machine is not a good example of information.
Hey, the world has 6.000.000.000 people. You Americans are only about 5% of it. Wake up!
Sealand is a hoax. There's no such country. It is a fantasy created by a crazy English to perform scams.
The guy sold passports and issued official papers for money. Those were not forgeries, they were official papers issued by the government of... a non-existing country. He made a lot of money from this.
The guy was arrested 1 or 2 years ago. I didn't know his site was still online.
IPv6 has a lot more features such as encryption, signature, QOS, etc.
It is also extensible. New features may be added and they will be in a chain of headers in the datagram. An implementation may ignore the headers it doesn't know.
IPv6 is the future, inspite of all those naysayers out there
You're just adding fuel into the fire. I have something about the damn registry, too.
At my work, I don't have admin privileges on my machine. But I have write access to all the partitions, including full access to the system FS (thank God!).
I cannot write in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, it's ok, I shouldn't be allowed to write there. But some of my apps are broken because of that. No app should try to write on that part of the registry except when it is installed, all should use HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Those apps are not well-behaved.
Strangely, the apps I'm talking about are mostly Micro$oft. So, they are so concerned about the security of their system that they design their apps assuming full access in the system! See what I mean?
Other example:
In my college the machines run w2k, the disk and the registry are protected, otherwise they would last a few hours. Some apps are broken, of course. Even so, I find all kinds of shitware installed and I can't uninstall it because I don't have permissions!
Installing a fresh Linux may be more difficult than installing Windoze, but installing a secure Linux is much much easier than a secure Windows.
Well, in *NIX, the virus would have to make a root exploit. Given that the *NIX world is heterogenous by nature, a virus targeting a particular exploit would have a very limited range.
Compare this to the Windoze world, where you have root access by default. A virus doesn't even need a root exploit.
You are forgetting an important difference. In Linux most people don't login as root to read their e-mail, and all the machine's file system is read-only except the user's home directory.
In Windoze, everything is wide open, and most people log in as admin by default!
I tried to change this in my computer at home. I removed my user and my wife's from the Administrator's group and set all the filesystem to read-only except for administrators. It went damn wrong. The damn machine went crazy, lots of applications were broken, specially those from Microsoft (strange).
I gave up. Just added me and my wife to the admins again. I don't have the time to set up the whole damn thing.
That's why I say Windows is inherently insecure. A lot.
Don't know about Macs, though.
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IE comes in the desktop, why use anything else? it does an okay job...
It doen't do an ok job. I'm forced to use IE at my job, and it crashes a lot. And this is the ultimate version with all the imaginable patches applied. It's really annoying!
I disabled ActiveX controls because I don't trust them a bit. A lot of security problems in IE involved ActiveX controls in web pages. Why should I trust binary code sent to me by a Web page? But the damn browser has to show me a popup everytime I open a page that happens to have ActiveX in it, warning me the page has an ActiveX and I have disabled that feature. I mean, I know I disabled the fucking feature! That's very very annoying. This is just a way of forcing people to enable ActiveX controls in pages, because nobody wants to put up with the damned popup! Then web developers can happily fill their pages with that shit, creating a completely locked-in MS-Internet.
My point is, IE doesn't do an OK job. Microsoft has stopped all their R&D on IE and they limit themselves to create some security patches. Currently, Mozilla beats the shit out of IE.
As a junior, I worked in the Oracle IT department, and MS Access was forbidden in any computer in there. I found it really weird, because at the time I thought Access was a pretty useful tool. It still is, at home, I mean.
Later I understood the reasons for forbidding Access. I worked for many customers who had their backoffices full of really shitty applications built on top of Access, Excel and VBA. I mean, they had their whole business built on that! More than a couple times I had to debug horrible stuff made by the local programmer wannabe, usually a financial or sales guy with no knowledge whatsoever of computer engineering, who learned a little bit of VBA and started coding away, turning his office in an intricate mess of redundant data, scattered files, and very shitty VB code.
Even worse is when some company has its customer database in Access, and each employee in the sales department has a local copy that they update regularly until nobody can track accurate information about anything anymore. Then every guy starts giving the others his password so they can read his files! Help!
And when we tell the manager their stuff is completely unsupportable and propose that they buy a suitable application or have a custom one built, the guy starts crying like a baby about the price of it. Sooner or later they will have to make that decision, but only after spending thousands in support, calling us every week to customise a little shit here or solve a little bug there. Not trying to put you down, though. If you work with VBA, and it works, my congratulations. You must be a pro.
That's what we get by having corporations managing the Internet infraestructure instead of a public service. Some people talk about censorship, but if the corporations actually have the nerve to do something like this, whow long does it take until censorship sets in?
Wow, you have studied your patriotic lesson. Your speech is full of patriotic cliches. I totally disagree with your points of view. And Muslims are not the devil, you know? Most of them are just common people, like you and me. This could be a very long argument, but it would be off-topic. I would only like to say that UN (imperfect as it is) represent ALL the World, and if Israel and the USA are against the rest of the World, then something must be wrong with you guys. If someone should rule the World, i'd rather that it be an assembly of all nations, than the USA.
Nobody wants to destablise you, mister. You sound paranoid. Most people in the World just wants to have a job and raise their children, just like any average American does. Your government tries to frighten you with bullshit like the rest of the world is trying to eat you. Don't buy that crap.
Do you at least know anything of the rest of the world?
USA have a GREAT LOT of problems with human rights. You should be a less of a bigot and try to get little bit better informed. Your corporate media machine is not a good example of information. Hey, the world has 6.000.000.000 people. You Americans are only about 5% of it. Wake up!
Sealand is a hoax. There's no such country. It is a fantasy created by a crazy English to perform scams.
The guy sold passports and issued official papers for money. Those were not forgeries, they were official papers issued by the government of... a non-existing country. He made a lot of money from this.
The guy was arrested 1 or 2 years ago. I didn't know his site was still online.
IPv6 has a lot more features such as encryption, signature, QOS, etc.
It is also extensible. New features may be added and they will be in a chain of headers in the datagram. An implementation may ignore the headers it doesn't know.
IPv6 is the future, inspite of all those naysayers out there
You're just adding fuel into the fire. I have something about the damn registry, too. At my work, I don't have admin privileges on my machine. But I have write access to all the partitions, including full access to the system FS (thank God!).
I cannot write in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, it's ok, I shouldn't be allowed to write there. But some of my apps are broken because of that. No app should try to write on that part of the registry except when it is installed, all should use HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Those apps are not well-behaved.
Strangely, the apps I'm talking about are mostly Micro$oft. So, they are so concerned about the security of their system that they design their apps assuming full access in the system! See what I mean?
Other example:
In my college the machines run w2k, the disk and the registry are protected, otherwise they would last a few hours. Some apps are broken, of course. Even so, I find all kinds of shitware installed and I can't uninstall it because I don't have permissions!
Installing a fresh Linux may be more difficult than installing Windoze, but installing a secure Linux is much much easier than a secure Windows.
Well, in *NIX, the virus would have to make a root exploit. Given that the *NIX world is heterogenous by nature, a virus targeting a particular exploit would have a very limited range.
Compare this to the Windoze world, where you have root access by default. A virus doesn't even need a root exploit.
You are forgetting an important difference. In Linux most people don't login as root to read their e-mail, and all the machine's file system is read-only except the user's home directory.
In Windoze, everything is wide open, and most people log in as admin by default!
I tried to change this in my computer at home. I removed my user and my wife's from the Administrator's group and set all the filesystem to read-only except for administrators. It went damn wrong. The damn machine went crazy, lots of applications were broken, specially those from Microsoft (strange).
I gave up. Just added me and my wife to the admins again. I don't have the time to set up the whole damn thing.
That's why I say Windows is inherently insecure. A lot.
Don't know about Macs, though.