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The internet is a malicious place, filled with the non-technical and uninformed. I guess we’ll wait for you to design a better trust-based system that allows y
by orf 6y ago
The internet is a malicious place, filled with the non-technical and uninformed.
I guess we’ll wait for you to design a better trust-based system that allows you to stop malicious software from executing on N different machines without needing N users to do anything.
- brainzap 6y agoNorton Antivirus will protect me
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- iso1210 6y agoI trust in McAfee, the software is as stable as the founder
- zepto 6y agoIt’s unfortunate that this is a response to a bulveristic comment. This really is a very important problem, indeed perhaps the most important problem in computer science today.
- api 6y agoThe real solution is a least privilege hardened operating system that limits the damage both in terms of malicious effects and data exfiltration/ surveillance. Exposing permissions to users is also a hard UI/UX problem. Code signing and OCSP and such are band aids to cover the fact that our OSes have deeply inadequate security models. They all date back to the days when the net was far less hostile or in some cases before WANs were a common thing. Web browsers run code from everywhere and do a decent but not perfect job of this. It’s possible.
- zepto 6y agoI’d say this is only one half. Many malicious effects involve social engineering, fraud, etc, and are not about exfiltration of files.