A new kind of security needed

[Jason Stone]

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> Is anyone else nervous trusting all his programs to have access to all 
> his files? Is there already a reasonable solution to this problem?
>
> It makes me nervous for, say, Firefox and its plugins to be able to read 
> and write every file I own, whether it's gnucash, ~/.ssh, or other 
> sensitive files.

Absolutely.  Right now, I use different logins for different things 
(casual web surfing, financial stuff, snd work), but it's inconvenient and 
far from fullproof.

Capabilities or MAC systems could be used here -- someone just has to put 
in the work to make it happen.


  -Jason

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