[Gllug] MS grumbles (was: take a lookat my photos on Facebook)

[Martyn Drake]

On 6 Nov 2009, at 09:46, JLMS wrote:

> People failed to realize back then that the most important asset in a
> computing system was the data and failed to protect it properly  (to a
> great extent it still isn't done today, Ubuntu is doing some
> interesting work on that regard by providing a transparently encrypted
> folder in your home directory by default).

Back then, for PCs, security was the responsibility of the application  
itself and not the operating system.  If you had to protect any data,  
the vendor responsible for the software had to DIY and not rely on the  
underlying operating system (i.e. MS-DOS) to do it.  Anything that  
protected the OS was through third party vendors (although I am having  
trouble thinking of anything that sat on top of DOS and "protected" it).

Regards,

Martyn

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