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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Hmmm. Just something about security in general, and I am not pointing fingers myself, merely reporting my experience with Vista so far. I think I made it clear enough that I consider taste as a personal matter : The sysadmin doesn't have that much impact on the security of a system, in the end, I don't mean to "nitpick" but it's not a proper evaluation of what he can/cannot do. Think about an OS as a building, a bank for the case at hands. And the sysadmin is - not even the builder, he is in charge for dispatching resources and accesses in the building. Now, the building has a weak point, weak wall, where a bomb will allow thiefs in in a matter of minutes. What's the sysadmin to do about it? Can prevent -some- of it, can report to the architect. Cannot do much if the thieves get themselves a bigger bomb and the architect has not come up with a fix. Every building has such a security flaw, even Fort Knox. Every OS too. This is not even due to software design : this is the very nature of -security- itself - nothing, I mean nothing, is unbreakable. That said, Mac OSX is a very recent buidling based on a Fort Knox kind of foundation. And it's kept "simple and to the point" : functional as needed, no more, no less. For Vista, the outside is shiny and new, but the core is a cabin built back in 95 (pre-internet-history in information science, somehow). And it's jam packed with bizarre and useless, and never visited wings : the "USB keys acting like a cache" concept for example. Nice try. Wrong result for many reasons out of the scope of this discussion. ...the rest is essentially taste, but I personally feel more secure, and more comfortable, working in the first of these two. Loading...
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