I'll just leave it alone. if it ain't broke, why break it further? :) plus, if I can be as productive as I am now why bother messin' with it?
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 18, 2015, at 5:01 PM, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote: > > Both of you speak very nicely from the perspective of one who knows what they > are doing, and are not afraid of the system. > > I dated a person awhile ago who, any time a window opened on the screen, > would panic and click ok or yes to make the box go away. She kept getting > viruses, spyware, and other things all the time on her computer. This is > another way of perceiving things, and it is more common than you might wish > to believe. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: [email protected] > Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 19 Sep 2015, at 3:36 AM, Scott Granados <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I’m torn on this. On one hand I’m glad that companies are taking security >> more seriously and are taking steps. On the other hand, you make a great >> point do we need our hands held? My gut says this could get overbearing and >> way to restrictive but then I see posts from people who probably don’t >> understand the ramifications asking for step by step directions how to turn >> off a feature that may not need disabling. No harm in asking I just get >> concerned if someone doesn’t have a full understanding of the impact of what >> they are doing and does it and then infects others. Maybe the way to go is >> the way it’s being done. Enable the feature, have a means to disable it but >> make the means to disable tricky enough that it requires some reading first >> where one could be informed of the risks. I don’t know. I’m the first to >> say don’t tell me what to do with my own hardware but I also see on a daily >> basis how much malware traffic is out there and it’s a massive amount. As >> in many things, it sounds like a balancing act. >> >>> On Sep 18, 2015, at 11:25 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Who’s happy? Everyone, I guess, except nerds—not even the nerds who gave >>> their loved ones iPads because they’re invulnerable to all the >>> spyware/ransomeware/whatever that spawns all the time on Windows boxen. >>> >>> It’s a trend. I don’t think it’s a good trend, in much the same way that I >>> don’t think it would be a good trend for kitchen knives to be blunted >>> because you can do accidental or deliberate harm with them. But eh, I get >>> it. I can’t print “An Idiot’s Guide To Computer Security: every wrong move >>> that’ll get me infected and a punch in the mouth” on the default printer of >>> newly updated copies of $OS, so I’ll just restrain the user in a >>> straightjacket instead. I’ll even allow them to choose a colour. Bleh. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
