Common problems with Ubuntu

[Micha Feigin]

On Tue, 11 May 2010 04:08:39 -0700
Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not at all!
> Google for "Microsoft SDL", it was not always the case, but nowadays they
> have excellent security awareness.
> For example, see evidence for the change here:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/david_leblanc/archive/2010/04/16/don-t-use-office-rc4-encryption-really-just-don-t-do-it.aspx
> 

Lets start with the problem that Microsoft encourages all users to be set as
administrators by default. It's almost impossible to be a regular user usually
and just switch momentary to administrator for small administration tasks ...

Managing simple folder / file permissions is also a difficult task (doing
complex permissions is complex on unix as well though)

> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 22:10 +0300, Elazar Leibovich wrote:
> >
> > > For example, Microsoft is now known for excellent security review
> > > practices. Whichever MS software I choose, I can rest assured that it
> > > will be relatively on the high end of security.
> >
> > Hidden sarcasm?
> >
> > - Gilboa
> >
> >
> >
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