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

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.

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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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