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What's your main web browser?
WMD:
--- Quote ---Why would people dislike integration with the desktop?
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Heh, reminds me of an old prank. A web site would say "I have your hard drive. Click to see it." with a link to "file://c:/". Unsuspecting (aka, stupid) users would click this and not notice, and proceed to freak out.
muzzy:
--- Quote from: WMD ---Heh, reminds me of an old prank. A web site would say "I have your hard drive. Click to see it." with a link to "file://c:/". Unsuspecting (aka, stupid) users would click this and not notice, and proceed to freak out.
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IMO this is a security vulnerability. Such things shouldn't be accessible, even through links, from the webpages. Unrestricted scope is such a messy thing, and very few developers pay attention to reducing it properly. Other examples include FTP servers where you can trick the server to do SMB queries (and to send out NTLM hashes, for a more concrete take on the attack, yay). Filesystem isn't a security mechanism, no namespace should be trusted with full access unless it's designed to be a minimum-scope one.
Oh, I sooo have to work my way into some standards committee to take care of these issues ;)
JanusChrist:
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Why would people dislike integration with the desktop? It's not like you have to use it.
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Becuz not everyone wants Internet Explorer and Outlook Express and NetMeeting, etc.,etc. to BE ON THEIR COMPUTER!! For what possible reason whould I even need a web brower to run Windows XP Disk Defragmenter (it won't work if you cripple the IE registry)? It's not like Microsoft couldn't build Windows without IE and OE integrated, we all know it's more than possible and would make a better OS in my opinion.
The security holes alone make IE 6.0 a poor choice for a web browser. This might change to some degree with IE 7.0 but I doubt it.
Refalm:
--- Quote from: muzzy ---Why would people dislike integration with the desktop? It's not like you have to use it.
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I dislike integration with the desktop because of choice. I tend to shake off everything I don't use.
If I someoen doens't use Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Windows Messenger, Outlook Express and all that other vaporware, then why keep them on the harddisk?
For all you know, they could form a security risk just sitting there.
With Linux, you can install or uninstall anything you like.
I don't know about you, but some people just like freedom.
muzzy:
If developers depend on some library, you can't remove it. It's simple as that, and not any different in linux. You're free to get rid of the stuff you don't like, as long as you accept that things that depended on them won't work anymore.
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