RE: [email] RE: [GD-General] A portable preferences library

[Andrew G. <ag...@cl...>]

> For what does one need administration rights?  To access the 
> Registry and other protected directories!  

One of which is c:\program files...

Of course you could install things to c:\unprotectedCrap but that rather
misses the point of being able to let your kid brother play with the PC and
be safe in the knowledge he isn't likely to fuck things up.

A lot of people use the auto update functions provided by games, a lot of
peple don't. I tend to be in the latter as I'd rather download such things
at work in the background and bung them on a CD instead of sitting at home
waiting for a game to update itself.

Andy



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Fahey [mailto:cp...@ea...] 
> Sent: 04 December 2003 22:47
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: Re: [email] RE: [GD-General] A portable preferences library
> 
> 
> 
> 2003 December 4th
> Thursday
> 
> For what does one need administration rights?  To access the 
> Registry and other protected directories!  Well, all of that 
> is unnecessary.
> 
> And as far as patching is concerned...  How do people acquire 
> patches today?  The application itself acquires its own 
> patches! I won't go in to the details of how an application 
> can acquire its own patches and somehow not interefere with 
> the application during the acquisition process, but I think 
> it's pretty evident that this is easy.
> 
> What huge binary "preference" might the user have?  Couldn't 
> this go in the application directory, too?
> 
> As far as my comment about multi-user systems being an 
> antiquated concept, I stand by it, but I need to qualify it.  
> I envision 
> decentralizing all security and preferences; these things 
> become the responsibility of individual resources in cooperation with 
> the operating system.  For example, you could set the 
> "desktop" to "Bob's" preferences, and access one of "Joe's" 
> folders, and launch a media player with "Jane's" preferences. 
>  There is no user logged in to the console, just a cloud of 
> resources with 
> various security mechanisms.
> 
> Right now it is possible for me to create a ZIP archive that 
> is protected by a password.  Even if a hacker compromises my 
> computer and gains access to the ZIP archive, it is pure junk 
> to the hacker. Just expand the idea to everything about the 
> operating system and all applications.
> 
> So a computer may have many users, but the idea of *being* a 
> user on a system and automatically gaining access to resources that 
> you own is obsolete.  Too often the big gatekeeper (e.g., the 
> Windows operating system) is compromised.  Security needs to 
> be decentralized.
> 
> --- Colin
> 
> cp...@ea...
> 
> 
> 
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