Comments on: Security and the State of the Computer http://decafbad.com/blog/2004/12/13/security-and-the-state-of-the-computer It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha By: Keith Gaughan http://decafbad.com/blog/2004/12/13/security-and-the-state-of-the-computer/comment-page-1#comment-1432 Keith Gaughan Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=575#comment-1432 <p>Wasn't this part of the idea behind Ellison's Network Computer?</p> Wasn’t this part of the idea behind Ellison’s Network Computer?

]]> By: fluffy http://decafbad.com/blog/2004/12/13/security-and-the-state-of-the-computer/comment-page-1#comment-1433 fluffy Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=575#comment-1433 <p>I know from personal experience now that UNIX underpinnings do not necessarily mean immunity. My website was recently compromised due to a very small hole in phpBB which led to the installation of several rootkits, warez servers, IRC eggdrop bots, and so on. An OSX system would be just as vulnerable, though granted the default configuration doesn't have any buggy PHP scripts enabled on the default site or anything.</p> I know from personal experience now that UNIX underpinnings do not necessarily mean immunity. My website was recently compromised due to a very small hole in phpBB which led to the installation of several rootkits, warez servers, IRC eggdrop bots, and so on. An OSX system would be just as vulnerable, though granted the default configuration doesn’t have any buggy PHP scripts enabled on the default site or anything.

]]> By: Sencer http://decafbad.com/blog/2004/12/13/security-and-the-state-of-the-computer/comment-page-1#comment-1434 Sencer Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=575#comment-1434 <p>Hi Leslie,</p> <p>while I kind of like the idea, I doubt that will happen anytime soon. Just look at where the Mobile-Industry is heading. They are moving from special-narrow-feature-set to wide-feature-set that more and more equal regular PCs.</p> <p>I think what could happen, is what we are starting to see with VCRs, that have streaming capability, and "CD-Players" for your stereo that can be connected to a PC and stream MP3s and radio. So what we might eventually see is more and more electronic gadgets becoming "specialized clients" for a Home-PC. But I don't see the Home-PC completely disappearing, because people won't like to give that "power and control" away, even if 1 out of 3 times they try to use it they end up hurting themselves.</p> <p>An interesting questions is, wether we'll see functionality that was born in the PC move to external "gadgets/clients". "Web/E-Mail" seemed to have been the ideal candidates, and several companies promised and sold the idea, be it integrated in telephones or into TV-sets, but eventually none of those caught on.</p> Hi Leslie,

while I kind of like the idea, I doubt that will happen anytime soon. Just look at where the Mobile-Industry is heading. They are moving from special-narrow-feature-set to wide-feature-set that more and more equal regular PCs.

I think what could happen, is what we are starting to see with VCRs, that have streaming capability, and “CD-Players” for your stereo that can be connected to a PC and stream MP3s and radio. So what we might eventually see is more and more electronic gadgets becoming “specialized clients” for a Home-PC. But I don’t see the Home-PC completely disappearing, because people won’t like to give that “power and control” away, even if 1 out of 3 times they try to use it they end up hurting themselves.

An interesting questions is, wether we’ll see functionality that was born in the PC move to external “gadgets/clients”. “Web/E-Mail” seemed to have been the ideal candidates, and several companies promised and sold the idea, be it integrated in telephones or into TV-sets, but eventually none of those caught on.

]]> By: Paul Mison http://decafbad.com/blog/2004/12/13/security-and-the-state-of-the-computer/comment-page-1#comment-1435 Paul Mison Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=575#comment-1435 <p>The commentary at The Register about the "Post PC Era" may interest you: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/06/post_pc_era/</p> The commentary at The Register about the “Post PC Era” may interest you: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/06/post_pc_era/

]]> By: Steve Makofsky's WebLog http://decafbad.com/blog/2004/12/13/security-and-the-state-of-the-computer/comment-page-1#comment-1436 Steve Makofsky's WebLog Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=575#comment-1436 <p><strong>The Exploding PC</strong></p> The Exploding PC

]]> By: Synesthesia http://decafbad.com/blog/2004/12/13/security-and-the-state-of-the-computer/comment-page-1#comment-1437 Synesthesia Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=575#comment-1437 <p><strong>Appliances as small pieces loosely joined</strong></p> <p>Fascinating series of posts by Leslie Michael Orchard applying the principles of "small pieces loosely joined" to computing hardware and appliances.</p> Appliances as small pieces loosely joined

Fascinating series of posts by Leslie Michael Orchard applying the principles of “small pieces loosely joined” to computing hardware and appliances.

]]> By: memigo http://decafbad.com/blog/2004/12/13/security-and-the-state-of-the-computer/comment-page-1#comment-1438 memigo Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=575#comment-1438 <p><strong>Auto-trackback from memigo.com</strong></p> <p>The Register article was added to memigo. Thanks! (1 other link(s) from this post also found.)<br /> Follow trackback to find related articles...</p> Auto-trackback from memigo.com

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