smileyheadMay 3, 2024

Security

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/15153132

Security - tchncs

Show threadDrGunjahMay 3, 2024
It’s not like I want to defend windows, but If it needs admin permission you usually can’t start it without confirmation.
Show threadr00tyMay 3, 2024
Here's the problem. So many legitimate things need elevation, and often multiple times in a single install. Guess what most Windows users do, when they see an elevation prompt. What do you reckon?
Show threadReveredOxygenMay 4, 2024
if you give elevated permission to movie.mp4.exe, that’s natural selection
Show threaddeaf_fish

I don’t know. Not everyone who uses a computer should be an expert. Not everyone is 100% alert all the time. I know there has to be a line somewhere.

I feel like it would be really easy to have the OS check if the exe is appended to some other extension and force the user to rename it before allowing it to be executed.

May 4, 2024 at 4:54pmWeb
Show threadCaptain AggravatedMay 4, 2024

There has to be a level of “competently trained user” in there we can strive for. I think we were getting there about the time I was in high school circa 2003, where every last one of us could format an MLA essay in MS Word and do an autosum in Excel.

Something that put me off of Microsoft products for a decade before I switched to Linux was their constant rearranging of the UI, requiring users to re-learn how to do basic tasks that worked just fine.