I still haven't found a player for my Mac (or Linux laptop) that can run songs/movies at double speed without making everyone sound like chipmunks.
Not developed by Apple, but vlc does that fine (at least on my Linux box, with VLC media player 1.0.6 Goldeneye).
I installed Folding@home for precisely that reason. I used to do a "yes >
That's the approach Unix has used for a long, long time now. Installed programs on a Unix system are generally root-owned and sit in directories that are also root-owned. For a normal user, both the executable and the directory in which it is located is read-only.
System-wide programs are stored in directories not writable by normal users, but that doesn't prevent a user from downloading a trojan into his own directory and running it, which is what the parent was talking about.
Unix systems do offer the option to mount
I agree the current situation is far from perfect (Ideally, the people at freedesktop.org would build a unified centralised password access protocol like they did with dbus etc, so applications developers wouldn't have to implement all existing protocols every time) but having each application implement its own strategy is worse.
Three reasons:
First, the user either has to type as many master password as there are implementations (Now I have to type three passwords when logging in: the session password, the kwallet password, and the firefox password because firefox doesn't integrate with kwallet) or store them in cleartext (or in an easily decrypted format). If I had to type one master password for each program that needs passwords (IM, browser, email, irc, gpg, ssh, etc), that would mostly defeat the purpose of them.
Secondly, having a single storage space enables sharing passwords securely between applications. Now I need to save my passwords separately for firefox, konqueror, and chrome. You'll say "stick to a single browser then" but it shouldn't have to be like that.
Third, writing your own implementation increases the risk of having bugs that lead to security holes, compared to a single implementation that got polished over time.
I'm not sure your statement that most users don't use those is right but know too little a sample to support my opinion (I don't know that many linux users but all of them, and not only experts, do use gnome keyring, and I use kwallet).
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