I agree that any box is as secure as the admin makes it. When the 'admin' is a relatively novice computer user, the more built-in protection, the better.
If the government mandates that seatbelts be installed in cars (not that they're used, necessarily) for safety reasons, then I'm not sure why big brother won't mandate OSes to come with AV and anti-malware software pre-installed and enabled by default.
We all know that the root of all network-based evil stems from unsecured boxes (and the jackass in accounting that can't ever get Word to open).
Just my two cents.
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Although laws do good things for society, could someone please tell this attorney to STFU? This bloated DRM crap is getting to me.
I agree that any box is as secure as the admin makes it. When the 'admin' is a relatively novice computer user, the more built-in protection, the better. If the government mandates that seatbelts be installed in cars (not that they're used, necessarily) for safety reasons, then I'm not sure why big brother won't mandate OSes to come with AV and anti-malware software pre-installed and enabled by default. We all know that the root of all network-based evil stems from unsecured boxes (and the jackass in accounting that can't ever get Word to open). Just my two cents.