"David Knaack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>
> After a recent successful script kiddie attack where the
> kiddie deleted his tools, it occured to me that on my system
> it would be useful to have functionality similar to the windows
> recycle bin. To achieve this I would like to replace 'rm' with
> a simple script that just moves files to a temp directory where
> files will age before being automaticly deleted.
>
> Since all users would use this function, no users should be
> able to 'dumpster dive', to examine discarded files. I think
> this is easily acomplished simply by making the directory
> world writeable, but not readable.
I think this is a great idea.
It is one of the tenets of Linux Macho that Bill Gates never did anything
useful, but it seems to me he got rich off one very creative and useful
insight -- that computers should and can be made "for my mother to use," his
stated design criterion.
I think the Open Source Movement should be simply upgrading his standard two
steps: software should be usable by anybody, the Microsoft Rule, and it
should work properly to get useful work done, a couple of ideas that
Microsoft didn't quite take aboard.
-dlj.
