Thread: Security on Nits?
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2008-04-18 , 16:35
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Originally Posted by meanwhile View Post
Assuming you're talking abouut Windows: that assumes that the keylogger could get control of the browser or mail package. This cold happen as the result of a flaw in implementation of the same, but there's a difference between an obscure flaw which gets patched, and an OS which has no security at all by design. If you're talking about maemo: yes.
Please explain why UNIX is used anywhere if IPC in general and pipelines in particular is such a horrible thing? Trying to keep evil software on your system and stop it from talking to anything else is not the only way to have a secure system, and many would argue it's not even a good way, applied to the entire system. (It's more applicable to web apps, where java or flash do provide respectable security against these casually downloaded and executed apps, by limiting their access to ~everything.)