On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, but if I can't trust my anti-virus software, and not my OS, and my job > is designing web applications, I don't have much choice do I? To be able to > do my job effectively means I have to explore features of as many new > websites as possible which I can't do unless I register and have atleast a > few friends/referrals on it. Sure, but that's not a reason to abdicate good security practice. > Trust has to start somewhere, and I choose to believe that my OS with > regular patches and my anti-virus software which keeps downloading updated > virus (and other threat) definitions every 30 minutes will protect me. Some food for thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_%28computing%29#Reflections_on_Trusting_Trust http://www.ics.uci.edu/~rohit/IEEE-L7-names-trust.html Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
