🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 03:44:51 +0000 (UTC), Melzzzzz <Melz...@zzzzz.com>
wrote:

>On 2018-02-03, J  Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2 Feb 2018 06:46:05 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 2018-01-30, Quadibloc wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>
>> "program" and "install software" are two different things.  I can
>> write and run all the code I want on the company machine.  Until they
>> gave me admin access a while back I was unable to install anything.
>>
>> "Install" means more these days than "copy an executable file".
>
>Installing system wide and user wide should be differentiated now.
>Software that requires rebooting an OS shouldn't be allowed at all.

Whether it's system wide or user wide, if it uses the registry my
employer has it blocked for anybody other than developers and IT
people tasked with installing software.