begin quoting Neil Schneider as of Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:37:20AM -0700:And users aren't interested in security at all, because it always interferes with getting what they want to do. So the argument is moot.
The security that comes from a root/non-root distinction on a single-user machine is arguably not worth the tradeoff. At least, not at this time.
From the user's point of view, no security is worth the tradeoff, so arguing about it is useless.
If that were true, they wouln't be all running around now worrying about AdWare, SpyWare, Trojans and Virii. Or is that just noise coming from the industries that detect and expunge them, and the average user really doesn't care all that much about these things ?
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