Comments for Mister Reiner

Comment on The Book by sue

sue — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:16:21 +0000

Read your book, Interesting, agree with you, thank you. Couple of typos loose instead of lose and port 23 and 22 wrong way around.

Comment on Windows will never be secure because of major design flaws by Mohammed Khaled

Mohammed Khaled — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 01:47:27 +0000

I think we need to find a 90% Secure, 95% Functionality, 94% Ease of use OS.

Linux is not compatible with a normal consumer from useability standpoint; “made to do special purposes”.

As you said Mr. Mister Reiner, windows also is not compatible with a normal consumer from Security’s standpoint.

As a normal user I can say that widows 7 achieved my requirements.

Thank you.

Comment on Windows will never be secure because of major design flaws by Mohammed Khaled

Mohammed Khaled — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 01:34:49 +0000

Dear Jim,

Linux is a bit far from the ‘Ease Of Use’ of Windows {Talking from the normal user standpoint}, hope that you will check this out.

http://blog.infosanity.co.uk/?s=functionality%2Fease+of+use

Comment on Android’s permissions model provides no protection against covert spyware by Mister Reiner

Mister Reiner — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:55:09 +0000

It’s easy. Making the app free makes it even easier. The big challenge is convincing people to download the app. If you can find an unattended phone that isn’t secured, you can install something very quickly and the owner may never notice that a rogue application is installed.

Comment on Android’s permissions model provides no protection against covert spyware by ivexfec

ivexfec — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:46:09 +0000

“Keep in mind, however, that a clever programmer can obfuscate his hidden intent by convincing a user that a feature requires certain permissions, which in a weird way make sense, but are not necessary for the application to function.”
How much is it possible?

Comment on Mac OS X versus Windows Security: Let’s just call it even by Mac vs Windows — Geeks to the Rescue

Mac vs Windows — Geeks to the Rescue — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:21:52 +0000

[...] This rareness has both a positive and a negative effect though. Viruses are difficult to write because they exploit quite complex loopholes in an operating system or associated support software. Because discovering these loopholes takes a lot of time and research, it makes sense to concentrate on the most popular platform in order for the virus writer to get the most “bang” for his “buck”. So the positive is that because Macs are rare, virus and spyware aren’t created for them (it is often said that Macs don’t get viruses because they are inherently more secure than Windows, but security analysts would say, “Let’s just call it even“). [...]

Comment on Why anti-malware software doesn’t always work by Researching antivirus for my pc - Computers -PCs, laptops, hardware, software - City-Data Forum

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Comment on Firefox vulnerabilities give me the creeps! by bhalley

bhalley — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:35:28 +0000

I have been using Opera for the last 3+ years. I tried Firefox and didn’t like it. I want a browser with no pop-ups and with Opera it has been a joy. I had to work on a computer last week whee the user got a pop-up about an update for AVG and they clicked on than AVG went crazy with alerts because of the malware that was trying to install. I do have to go to Firefox for some web apps that don’t work under Opera.

Comment on Why Motorola’s Droid X eFuse is a good thing by Mister Reiner

Mister Reiner — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:15:37 +0000

It’s not like the phone will stop working…

Comment on Why Motorola’s Droid X eFuse is a good thing by T.Osinubi

T.Osinubi — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:10:57 +0000

So what happens when Motorola decides not upgrade the Droid X to Android 3.0? So now you have all you have a nice 1GHZ papaer weight? Obviously destined for some landfill, right?