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Re: What is the oldest computer that could be used today for real work? [message #411177 is a reply to message #411172] Thu, 23 September 2021 14:42 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Charlie Gibbs is currently offline  Charlie Gibbs
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On 2021-09-23, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:

> Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Too be fair, poor backup and recovery probably plays a role too.
>>
>> I was going to say that windows is just a bigger target than Linux, but
>> Linux is used extensively in servers and mission-critical situations, and
>> you seldom hear about a successful attack targeting Linux. You’re right
>> about poor backup software and procedures.
>
> Fundamentally, it devolves to Microsoft's choice to use HTML
> in email and to allow executable content in mail, to forgo
> any form of user security, et cetera.
>
> Simple text is far safer, and forcing someone to manually cut & paste
> URLs from a text mail (where the URL is unobfuscatable) to
> a sandboxed browser would have been a far more secure paradigm.

Yes, but far less convenient. And as every marketroid knows,
convenience trumps everything: cost, efficiency, security, even safety.

Wait, let me amend that: _perceived_ convenience. How many times have
you watched someone pointing and clicking and pointing and clicking
and dragging and dropping and... oops, my mouse finger slipped - where
did that file get dropped? All this to do something we could do with
a dozen keystrokes. And still they'll proudly proclaim how _convenient_
it is. Furrfu.

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