Comments on: Crowd sourcing security and permissions; IE9’s baby steps http://almaer.com/blog/crowd-sourcing-security-and-permissions-ie9s-baby-steps blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:06:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jake http://almaer.com/blog/crowd-sourcing-security-and-permissions-ie9s-baby-steps/comment-page-1#comment-47253 Jake Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:13:14 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2778#comment-47253 <blockquote>Some will yell, “think of the children!” and that if this popup has stopped ONE virus or malware through, it is worth the pain for the other millions of up pops.</blockquote> I think if there's anything we learned from Vista, it's that the pain of millions of popups should not be underestimated. And if you put too many unimportant popups out there, by the time an important one comes up the user will be desensitized into just clicking "Allow".

Some will yell, “think of the children!” and that if this popup has stopped ONE virus or malware through, it is worth the pain for the other millions of up pops.

I think if there’s anything we learned from Vista, it’s that the pain of millions of popups should not be underestimated. And if you put too many unimportant popups out there, by the time an important one comes up the user will be desensitized into just clicking “Allow”.

]]> By: Chris Messina http://almaer.com/blog/crowd-sourcing-security-and-permissions-ie9s-baby-steps/comment-page-1#comment-47231 Chris Messina Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:29:57 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2778#comment-47231 I designed something like this for Twitter apps awhile back: http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/3448360090/sizes/o/in/photostream/ I designed something like this for Twitter apps awhile back:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/3448360090/sizes/o/in/photostream/

]]> By: Nikita Vasilyev http://almaer.com/blog/crowd-sourcing-security-and-permissions-ie9s-baby-steps/comment-page-1#comment-47230 Nikita Vasilyev Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:05:09 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2778#comment-47230 By the way, any idea how to disable that annoying OS X dialog? By the way, any idea how to disable that annoying OS X dialog?

]]> By: Sam http://almaer.com/blog/crowd-sourcing-security-and-permissions-ie9s-baby-steps/comment-page-1#comment-47228 Sam Sat, 18 Sep 2010 07:44:13 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2778#comment-47228 I think they are protecting a different threat vector. It is very easy to get someone to download something with the way browsers work. That thing gets indexed in spotlight. It might be named similarly to another program that you run often. This would in some cases get you to execute something that you shouldn't without much trouble. For example, you could name it Mail or Safari and it would rank quite high in search. Just speculation but I am ok with it asking me. Collaboration doesn't help this case because a fast spreading virus or malware by definition would have been installed by your friends and others. I think they are protecting a different threat vector. It is very easy to get someone to download something with the way browsers work. That thing gets indexed in spotlight. It might be named similarly to another program that you run often. This would in some cases get you to execute something that you shouldn’t without much trouble. For example, you could name it Mail or Safari and it would rank quite high in search. Just speculation but I am ok with it asking me. Collaboration doesn’t help this case because a fast spreading virus or malware by definition would have been installed by your friends and others.

]]> By: Heiko http://almaer.com/blog/crowd-sourcing-security-and-permissions-ie9s-baby-steps/comment-page-1#comment-47226 Heiko Sat, 18 Sep 2010 07:26:41 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2778#comment-47226 @Jesus especially as virus writers will find a way to submit millions of "foovirus.exe is safe to open" messages to the crowd (or is it cloud ?) @Jesus especially as virus writers will find a way to submit millions of “foovirus.exe is safe to open” messages to the crowd (or is it cloud ?)

]]> By: Jan http://almaer.com/blog/crowd-sourcing-security-and-permissions-ie9s-baby-steps/comment-page-1#comment-47199 Jan Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:06:37 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2778#comment-47199 I think the new security model is an interesting idea, but do you really trust other people to make security decisions for you? Those are the people that forwarded all these other trojans to you. I think the new security model is an interesting idea, but do you really trust other people to make security decisions for you? Those are the people that forwarded all these other trojans to you.

]]> By: Jesus http://almaer.com/blog/crowd-sourcing-security-and-permissions-ie9s-baby-steps/comment-page-1#comment-47198 Jesus Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:25:25 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2778#comment-47198 So if enough people have ran foovirus.exe it will have a free pass for everyone else, considering it's not detectable by scanning? Sounds dangerous. So if enough people have ran foovirus.exe it will have a free pass for everyone else, considering it’s not detectable by scanning? Sounds dangerous.

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