Journal Space cowboy's Journal: Think different... 4
So, I was reading that Sony had installed DRM onto Macs as well as onto Windows machines, and I was curious to see how they got around the system protections to prevent software like this from doing exactly this...
They didn't.
Contrast the experience of a windows user: Consumer puts a cd into their computer with the intention of playing the cd. The cd takes advantage of a feature in Windows and installs software in the background without consumer's knowledge. Consumer is owned.
To the experience of the Mac user: Consumer puts a cd into their computer with the intention of playing the CD. Up comes a dialogue box asking for Admin privileges. Consumer gets to deny the 'owning'...
Now it's possible that 'consumer' would just click ok, type in their username/password, and allow Sony to do their dirty deeds, but since they've almost certainly put a CD into their computer before and it didn't do that, I doubt it. I'm pretty convinced my mother wouldn't type in a password - she'd probably call me to ask why it was doing that...
In any event, I prefer the Mac method - you at least get a chance to deny the installation of the rogue software, and even if you screw up and it installs, the contents are a simple "ls -lrt
Simon
You give the user too much credit (Score:2)
Disable write permissions so they can't install Gator? They demand that you install Gator for them.
Block
Disable saving on the HDD so the users have to use the (regularly bac
Re:You give the user too much credit (Score:2)
They demand you install gator ??? Tie them, bundle in the boot of your car, take them to the nearest zoo, and introduce them first hand to a 'gator... Problem solved.
Fortunately, the second of these doesn't really apply to the Mac.
I've always found laughter to be the best solution to the third...
I used to work as a sysadmin on a college network. I never had the troubles you seem to be having. I was always a last-resort for any of my users, and if they were cute I was someti
Something to learn here (Score:2)
And they must know that whenever an app demands an admin password, that means that app can do ANYTHING on their system, at install time or in the future.
This is not so much a problem for companies (or households) where regular users do not have admin rights. But a lot of a Macs are "single", so they user is automatically the admin.
I hope this rootkit news will make people aware again to ask "why?" when a request for admin privs pops up
Ale
Re:Something to learn here (Score:2)
Man, I don't miss Windows.