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Re:Windows 10 will use protected folders to thwart crypto ra... by sitkack on Monday July 03, 2017 @12:08PM (#14689303)
How about using ML to detect profiles of access and disallowing un-common access patterns? If I only use VS Code to access my source, prevent win-malwr.sys from accessing that folder.
Re:Windows 10 will use protected folders to thwart crypto ra... by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday July 03, 2017 @12:35PM (#14689546)
And then one day you want to zip up the project to send to a friend, run an external linter on it, or make backups. ML depends on an adequate training set, and real life uses change quickly enough to break it.
Re:Windows 10 will use protected folders to thwart crypto ra... by sitkack on Monday July 03, 2017 @01:07PM (#14689786)
The OS would confirm that it was an end user making the action not malware. It is about the automatic creation of security rules based on observed behavior. The other option would be to create everything manually, which doesn't happen.
Re:Windows 10 will use protected folders to thwart crypto ra... by ric129 on Monday July 03, 2017 @03:00PM (#14690570)
Browsers have already taught us how useless this is, users will always click through.
Re:Windows 10 will use protected folders to thwart crypto ra... by d8421l01vv4r on Monday July 03, 2017 @04:29PM (#14691141)
Having an OS that arbitrarily denies applications access to files would drive me mad very quickly. I'm guessing that seemingly unpredictable behaviour would annoy the average user as well.