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I think bigger problem is that you need "holistic, creative, critical thinking" to run an absolutely mundane, workaday Windows domain. Because there are hundred
by closeparen 5y ago
I think bigger problem is that you need "holistic, creative, critical thinking" to run an absolutely mundane, workaday Windows domain. Because there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of those. Why don't we get the holistic, creative, critical thinkers to work at Microsoft (and the vendors people generally use in concert with Microsoft) to stop shipping this vulnerability-riddled crap.
- javajosh 5y agoWell, yes, system administration is, in general, quite broken. It is ironic to me that all those selfish weaknesses that vendors (hardware and software) include to give some sort of asymmetric advantage to them are always the cause of weakness. It's almost as if, I don't know, simple, symmetrical, fair computing systems are actually more secure by some law of nature. But yeah. Software needs to get fewer, simpler, easier to understand, verify and build. Hardware needs to be simpler and easier to understand - and possible to verify. And there needs to be awareness this isn't some hippy-dippy sentiment of strange neckbeards, but rather its the only way to get the security we all need. "Every exploit can be turned against it's owner" needs to be drilled into engineers, executives and lawmakers at every level until they hear it in their sleep, and recoil in horror when anyone even suggests knowingly shipping an exploit.
- closeparen 5y agoIt could perhaps be reasonable for IT departments to ship Windows desktops without all these surveillance and control mechanisms, if normal web browsing and email activities such as clicking links and opening attachments were not so likely to get the enterprise owned.
- joe_the_user 5y agoYou need to be creative because the standards are broken. If there were strong, holistic standards, you wouldn't need to be creative.