* What alternative operating systems need to learn from Microsoft
posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 8th Dec 2004 20:48 UTC, submitted by Nicholas
IconI just spent the last several days reading the lengthy essay "Ying and Yang of Security" which explores the origins of security on the personal computer and explains why the current models are outdated. It seems to argue that security systems designed to keep the system safe are relics of the days of mainframes when the system was more important than the user, but for a personal computer the user is more important than the system.
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