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"Overkill": excessive protection and the false sense of security
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<blockquote data-quote="brod56" data-source="post: 788172" data-attributes="member: 59366"><p>I agree and disagree. MT ratings are made this way so that inexperienced users might go ahead and copy secure configs and be reasonably secure.</p><p>However, it should be noted that some 'secure: complete' configs are not good at all for regular users. Overkill most of the times (which mean a lot less convenient), or simply too advanced (regular users won't be able to understand why executables are blocked by default, or why a firewall is blocking the connections to their newly installed browser, etc).</p><p>I suggest that overkill configs are tagged with caution, and that 'complete' and 'basic' restrictions are removed.</p><p>Let's make the community safe instead of making them paranoid like us</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brod56, post: 788172, member: 59366"] I agree and disagree. MT ratings are made this way so that inexperienced users might go ahead and copy secure configs and be reasonably secure. However, it should be noted that some 'secure: complete' configs are not good at all for regular users. Overkill most of the times (which mean a lot less convenient), or simply too advanced (regular users won't be able to understand why executables are blocked by default, or why a firewall is blocking the connections to their newly installed browser, etc). I suggest that overkill configs are tagged with caution, and that 'complete' and 'basic' restrictions are removed. Let's make the community safe instead of making them paranoid like us [/QUOTE]
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