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<blockquote data-quote="509322" data-source="post: 770286"><p>People who use Chrome OS and Chromebook don't think it is inconvenient. If it was so inconvenient, then they wouldn't use it. Like I pointed out, it is a different user experience than Windows. And let's be accurate here... people can download and install stuff if they want, from a garbage Google Web and Play Stores that are full of malicious stuff. The only solution is educate the user and then hopefully they will lock down the system.</p><p></p><p>There are young children that use my default deny system. If they can manage to figure out default deny, then adults surely can.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">The whole negative attitude towards default deny is all mental and emotional. The debate of default allow versus default deny is essentially the debate of "What people are willing to do or want to do versus what people <em>should </em>do because it is good for them." We all know people are terrible at doing what is good for themselves. People are experts at wrecking themselves. And there is no better example of that than default allow. It is terrible for people. There are literally thousands of studies and tests that back that claim up if measured using an absolute measuring stick and even AV industry executives that have said default allow suxx.</span></p><p></p><p>Saying that default deny is too inconvenient is bogus. What the argument that is really being made is that "if a system blocks a user from downloading and installing stuff, then it is an unacceptable inconvenience."</p><p></p><p>Man, get out of here... that is exactly the solution that is needed in the first place. One thing I know for sure, as long as people blindly use default allow, the high rates of infection will continue on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="509322, post: 770286"] People who use Chrome OS and Chromebook don't think it is inconvenient. If it was so inconvenient, then they wouldn't use it. Like I pointed out, it is a different user experience than Windows. And let's be accurate here... people can download and install stuff if they want, from a garbage Google Web and Play Stores that are full of malicious stuff. The only solution is educate the user and then hopefully they will lock down the system. There are young children that use my default deny system. If they can manage to figure out default deny, then adults surely can. [COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]The whole negative attitude towards default deny is all mental and emotional. The debate of default allow versus default deny is essentially the debate of "What people are willing to do or want to do versus what people [I]should [/I]do because it is good for them." We all know people are terrible at doing what is good for themselves. People are experts at wrecking themselves. And there is no better example of that than default allow. It is terrible for people. There are literally thousands of studies and tests that back that claim up if measured using an absolute measuring stick and even AV industry executives that have said default allow suxx.[/COLOR] Saying that default deny is too inconvenient is bogus. What the argument that is really being made is that "if a system blocks a user from downloading and installing stuff, then it is an unacceptable inconvenience." Man, get out of here... that is exactly the solution that is needed in the first place. One thing I know for sure, as long as people blindly use default allow, the high rates of infection will continue on. [/QUOTE]
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