On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Doug Wellington wrote:
> Previously:
> >Netscape won't install a plugin without the user saying so.
>
> IE is the same...
No, it's not the same. The level of effort is significantly less. I had
some figures a year or so ago about the percentage of the user population
that would actually install a helper application. It's the same with
plug-ins, I'd hazard, where Active-X is *much* easier to install. This
_is_ an issue.
> a limited (Java?) VM or a more limited browser such as Mosaic. Of course,
> while we're considering that direction, we should also consider X terminals,
> or maybe even going back to VT100 or 3270 terminals attached to a mainframe.
> Then we could really protect the users from themselves! That's the direction
> of the Network Computer - take the responsibility away from the user. But if
> we trust our users, then they should be allowed to choose for themselves...
If we trusted our users to enforce our security policies every day, we
wouldn't *need* firewalls. They'd all install and maintain secure hosts.
Paul
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