Privacy and passwords

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 3 Mar 2008 23:33:59 +0000 "Keith A. Milner" <kamilner at superlative.org> wrote:

> 
> On Sunday 02 March 2008 21:00:43 Robert Heller wrote:
> >
> > This is fact a 'wrong thing to do' and only happens because people
> > became 'used' to the non-existent security of MacOS Classic and Win
> > 3.11/Win 9X.  With Win2K, WinXP, WinVista, Linux, and MacOSX, there
> > really is NO reason to have separate login accounts for mom, pop, the
> > kids and and their friends.#
> 
> I'me guessing here you meant to say "there really is NO reason *NOT* to have 
> separate login accounts for mom, pop, the kids and and their friends".

Yes, that is what I meant...

> 
> ...and this is absolutely correct.
> 
> If someone cannot even do something as simple as set up different login 
> accounts for their sensitive data then they haven't got a clue about security 
> and "the real world".
> 
> Botttom line is: security is YOUR responsibility whether you're using Gnucash, 
> MS Money, or Quicken, or Excel. Modern computers have the facilities built in 
> to provide some of this security, and it's not difficult to do. There's a 
> number of good adjectives which accurately describe anyone who doesn't use 
> these facilities. One of the kinder ones I can think of is "lazy".
> 
> 

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