[81056] in Cypherpunks
Re: Comments on the Macintosh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Tue Jun 3 02:27:47 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03102803afb8af25877d@[17.203.21.78]>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 22:10:22 -0700
To: Vinnie Moscaritolo <vinnie@webstuff.apple.com>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Vinnie wrote:
>Tim,.I am suprised to hear you whining with such a liberals voice.. I
>always thought that demanding memory protection in an OS is a lot like
>demanding that the government is responsible for protecting you from
>anything that might go bad.. If applications are well written, then you
>really dont need the memory partitions in a personal computer.
Hi Vinnie. I'm with Tim on this one. While I have strong feelings about
locking up people, I have no compunctions at all about locking up
program-instances. If I can contain the instances, and especially keep
them limited in their file access, I can do a bunch to control viruses and
other nasties. (BTW - Linux, like all Unixes is piss poor at limiting file
system access.)
Best Regards - Bill
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