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[Robert Uhl]

Bill Wisse <wiswp at niue.nu> writes:
>
> Gnucash should be password protected.

Why?  The OS already handles permissions and security, and does it
well.  There exist encryption programs which handle encryption, and do
that job well.  Were gnucash to add a password feature, it'd be one more
thing to break, and would probably not do a great job of it (no offence
to the developers--I imagine that none are encryption or security
geeks).  Most 'password protection' simply gives a false sense of
security--why do that?

The Unix philosophy is for each tool to do one thing, and do it well.
Gnucash handles double-entry accounting, and does it well.  Other tools
exist to handle security, and do that well.

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Robert Uhl <ruhl at 4dv.net>
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