Re: Mark of the web considered harmful

2005-04-27 Thread Nigel McFarlane
You are saying Microsoft will claim that Longhorn solves these problems. It's a key plank of your hypothetical argument. So I'm asking How do you know that? What mechanism are they proposing? I never said that Microsoft would provide an alternate *concrete* solution. I said that they're

Re: Possible security policy for local disk access

2005-04-27 Thread Nigel McFarlane
With MOTW in place, Mozilla and Firefox trusts Word documents more than it trusts web documents, passing them through the file-save cycle without modification. That is silly. Not exactly. The point of trust is on reload, not on save. The MOTW is merely metadata about the file's origin. I might

Re: Calling for votes for and against

2005-04-27 Thread Jaqui
Nigel McFarlane wrote: Although Gerv's worked on me hard, it seems that the essence of this border crossing model idea has survived in this forum. Calling for votes for or against from all lurkers, which I'll take back to the relevant bug for consideration there. - Nigel. I still think a mark of

Re: Calling for votes for and against

2005-04-27 Thread Ian Grigg
Although Gerv's worked on me hard, it seems that the essence of this border crossing model idea has survived in this forum. Calling for votes for or against from all lurkers, which I'll take back to the relevant bug for consideration there. What is the statement that people are voting