Re:The X-Windows Disaster (1994)
by ddingus on Thursday March 05, 2020 @03:25PM
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Context matters. The notable part today isn't hacker protection. I'm sorry I implied that.
It's user error / protection. And at the time, getting that on anything that required data move around? Horrors!
We've got that today, though it took an amazing amount of thrashing about to get where I was then. And it's more secure in the adversarial sense too. Still, a lot of data has to move around, and it's still a PITA when it does.
The better tools today are rapidly converging on that same basic model: App serve to users through display only protocols.
It's user error / protection. And at the time, getting that on anything that required data move around? Horrors!
We've got that today, though it took an amazing amount of thrashing about to get where I was then. And it's more secure in the adversarial sense too. Still, a lot of data has to move around, and it's still a PITA when it does.
The better tools today are rapidly converging on that same basic model: App serve to users through display only protocols.