On Friday 28 August 2009 03:39:14 Thor (Hammer of God) wrote: > If the entire argument is around the default escalation behavior being > "enter a password" (which they already know) vs clicking OK because you > assume entering the password is more of a deterrent, then OK, but the > premise of "the people I work with are too stupid to know the difference" > kind of takes away from that. And one should also note that in a domain > environment, the default behavior is indeed username and password. Just > thought I'd throw that in as well.
It is entirely what the escalation behavior is. My objection to Vista is two-fold: Clicking OK instead of entering a password. As I have argued before, there really is a difference between clicking OK and entering a password. That brings me to my second objection. Vista puts up more escalations than Ubuntu, further exacerbating that difference. Your point about using a password to log into domains might be valid, but only in limited instances, as I would hope that the department that set up the domain would have its users not running as administrators. We basically agree on the main point: Separate user and administrator accounts are better. I wonder if Microsoft will start enforcing that? -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
