On 07/07/2010 10:37 a.m., Alan Bourke wrote: > > >> On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:58 -0300, "Ricardo Aráoz"<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> thing is that the OS will trick you into thinking you are doing >>> something you are really not doing. That is big daddy saying he'll twist >>> the news a little for your own good, because we all know big daddy knows >>> better. >>> > They listened to the criticisms of lax security in Windows and they > locked it down. But they have millions of users running legacy > applications that put files everywhere they shouldn't because older > versions didn't stop them - including the root of the system drive. So > what approach would you suggest? Just break compatibility? You'd be > crying about broken compatibility if they did that. They can't win. >
1- sooner or later you *have* to break compatibility. It seems it is bad business though 2- What about a box saying the program wishes to write data in c: and I'm going to trick it but write data where you tell me to? And the explorer showing *me* (not the program) the truthful location of the files? _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
