Thread: Security on Nits?
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meanwhile is offline meanwhile
2008-04-18 , 15:31
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Originally Posted by tabletrat View Post
I have several and always have had.



Almost never means GUI interaction. Anything you can control in any way, can be controlled by any other thing If you have a virus/keylogger/whatever, it is running at the same privilege level as you, so it can control your firewall as well as you can. Maybe even better because it is putting effort into it.
The typical windows firewall doesn't provide finegrained programmatic access. Otoh, killing the firewall absolutely will rather be a giveaway to most users - eg because it won't be shown in the menu bar anymore.



[Using a logically identical case] That is going to an extreme to try and prove an argument. It is nowhere near the same level of importance.
Ok: you don't understand the rules of logic as deveopled in the Western world over the past 3000 years. Start with reading Plato.

I am referring to knowing what you install on your NiT, and knowing where it came from. You can't be expected to know every line of code running, but you can be expected to know what you have installed, and know what level of trust you give that code.
But you don't. You, personally, do not. Would you give some guy in Russia your paypal password? Probably not. But you use FBReader. Now, you probably won't get ripped off as a result - just as if you choose the ebay name JamesBond and the password 007 you're account probably won't get hacked, but it isn't good security - it's relying on luck.

(Yes, using an analogy is "extreme" - go and read Plato or take an introductory course in logic.)