Comments on: Restricting insecure applications

A look at two lists of the most insecure applications and using them to chose applications that DropMyRights should run in restricted mode.

[ejevo]

Switching OSes only a temporary solution

There is NO OS THAT IS SAFE. Same can be said for browsers, too. End of story. The security bugs only follow the crowd. As soon as the crowd runs over to another OS seeking protection (OSX, Linux, whatever), the exploits will soon follow.

It's better to stay and defend your OS rather than just trade one set of issues in for a new set of issues.

[tenc21]

Temporary solutions are not bad choices

Let's use an analogy. There's Microsoft Pizza Works which charges $35 for a plain pie and it makes you sick, and then they sell you another for $40 which makes you even sicker. So, you go across the street to Linux Pizza Parlor which sells you a plain pie for $30 that gets you sick, but you get a free replacement pie that also gets you to the bathroom. Finally, you wind up at Mac Pizza Factory where the pies are only $20 and they don't make you sick, but they're just not tasty.

If you're dying from hunger and had to eat and had the money, you could keep getting sick until Microsoft or Linux made their pizza fit for human consumption, or you could go to Mac and eat awful pizza. If you had to eat, you'd go to Mac.

It's all about knowing when to desert a sinking ship...even a raft with no oars can be a better choice. [yup, it's true too many scrambling overboard onto the raft could sink it, but you wouldn't try to get on?]

[mhinnewyork]

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