Re: PgSql on Vista? - Mailing list pgsql-general

Brandon Aiken wrote:
> Actually the only reason we have an email disclaimer is for CSIA
> compliance.  We know they have a highly dubious legal standing, but,
> hey, it's what the auditors require.

google CSIA turns up a bunch of stuff. what is it exactly?

>
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> Brandon Aiken
> CS/IT Systems Engineer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Konrad Neuwirth [mailto:k.neuwirth@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 6:46 AM
> To: Brandon Aiken
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PgSql on Vista?
>
> I find it ironic that this -- to my mind, very on the spot -- comment
> comes with one of the mostly useless signature that there for ...
> plausible deniability.
>
> :-)
>  Konrad
>
> On 3/16/07, Brandon Aiken <BAiken@winemantech.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> It was clear to me after 20 minutes of actually trying to use the OS
> that
>> UAC was a gimmick designed to supply plausible deniability for the
> fact that
>> Windows XP suffered so many problems with malware.  They can simply
> ask
>> "were you using UAC?" every time someone complains that their box got
>> infected with some rootkit of some sort instead of actually having to
> secure
>> their OS intelligently.  They know darn well that everyone who uses
> the OS
>> will turn it off.  The silly thing is the boy-who-cried-wolf and
> nothing
>> more.
>>
>> Frankly, I like Windows Server 2003's default of not allowing you to
> execute
>> any program you got from elsewhere without explicitly unblocking it.
> It
>> works just as well, IMX, although the error message you get when you
> forget
>> about it is useless.
>>
>> B Aiken
>>
>>  ________________________________
>>  From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org on behalf of Dave
>> Page
>> Sent: Thu 3/15/2007 5:24 PM
>> To: Paul Lambert
>> Cc: Arkan; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
>> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PgSql on Vista?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul Lambert wrote:
>>
>>> After install completes you can turn it back on... if you want -
>>> personally I leave it off, it's an incredibly annoying "feature".
>> Doesn't the security center keep popping up to point out that it's
>> turned off?
>>
>> Regards Dave
>>
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