7 Feb
2004
7 Feb
'04
2:45 p.m.
On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 20:27:11 +0200, Petri Helenius said:
It would help if systems would only execute code that is signed properly. This would make malware traceable. However the current way of getting your code signed is in many cases too costly for the casual open source developer so people are used to running unsigned or selfsigned application even when the facilities to check signatures would already exist in the system. (though for example in Windows, signatures are only checked at install, not runtime)
People are used to doing dumb things. Here's a depressing story: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=53390