Re: Making Computers Secure

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From: Quadibloc
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 18:24

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On Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 8:35:25 AM UTC-7, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-01-30, Quadibloc wrote:

> > On some tech news site, I came across a comment to the effect that things like 
> > Meltdown and Spectre wouldn't be such a big deal...

> > if the only executable content our computers ran were programs we installed on 
> > them.

> That ignores the multiuser aspect of computers.

Well, if a computer is multi-user, you only want the admins to be able to 
install software. Requiring applications software to be usable by users other 
than an admin would promote good coding practice...

John Savard

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