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For general public I can see how that is helpful if they can't decide if a foreign executable is trust worthy or if they execute everything with admin/root priv
by zeusk 5y ago
For general public I can see how that is helpful if they can't decide if a foreign executable is trust worthy or if they execute everything with admin/root privilege.
As for me, I really hate this "feature". I work with IHVs and often have to share private binaries and it's a chore using xcopy/sfpcopy to their bespoke network path, from where I guess then someone manually copies over to their local subnet.
We should have a more robust mechanism in place than to outright ban sharing of executable files. Windows Smartscreen and Mac's Gatekeeper method of online checksum/signature verification is sort of interesting.
- 650REDHAIR 5y ago1000 times no. You need to build security for the lowest common denominator.
- zeusk 5y agoWhich is what Defender smartscreen and Gatekeeper are. With their full on setting, they give you a big fat warning on running files from internet. This is like banning guns and cars because they can kill people. Also, you do 24 hours of lemons?