[KULUA] Nightline (fwd) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 May 2000

...
   I'm not sure I'd agree completely.  I believe
one of the OS'
responsibilities is SYSTEM security.  As I sit here hammering away
on my SGI, there's absolutely nothing Netscape can do to compromise
the OS or the machine, other than my little corner of it and anything
I have permissions to write to.  We can't say the same about Windoze. 

Yep but windoes (8x that is) is basiclly like running from your superuser 
account.  Would NS be as safe for the system there?

This is a fundemental problem of the dos/win3.1/win9x series, they
operate with few if any protections. There are other OSs where this 
is the case as well.  Do I like it no, but W95 alone is hard to hurt from 
on the net add IE5.0 and thats a whole can of worms.

Allison