XENOPHONZ opened this issue on Oct 07, 2007 · 71 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 24 October 2007 at 12:37 PM
Ya know.......I believe that the current Holy Grail for commercial OS developer types involves two issues: security and anti-piracy......two issues which in a way represent mutually contradictory motivators. To keep out hackers you install all sorts of system-resource-sapping & annoying failsafes; and then to keep an eye on end-users to be sure that they aren't ripping music and / or movies to hand out to their buddies (or to sell) -- you include all sorts of backdoors & built-in spying mechanisms. Mechanisms which, of course, smart hackers will quickly figure out ways to exploit.
You can't win. Do your computing on an abacus.