In
<cae1xxdevztq4adopn6+dmmqsrqjxbg7n0d6hjexa59oaqya...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 11/19/2012
at 11:10 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>An authorized program can do great, even lethal damage; and the
>standards for them are or should be much higher than they are or
>need be for a program that generates mailing labels. That
>conceded, little that is useful gets done without the use, either
>explicitly or under the covers, of authorized programs; there is
>nothing fearsome about them; and their avoidance is a recipe for
>inadequacy.
Their blind use is a recipe for disaster. Little gets done in an
industrial society without the use of high explosives, but that
doesn't mean that it is prudent to use them as a substitute for a
spade when digging up your garden. Google for "principle of least
privilege", then use the right tool for the job at hand.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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