[rescue] NeWS

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

der Mouse wrote:
>>The Windows driver system allows layered drivers which not only allow
>>software houses to install viral programs which hurt my system and my
>>ability to use it, but open up security holes all the way to ring
>>zero.
> 
> 
> To be fair, lots of Unix variants do this too.  Anything that supports
> vendor-provided binary-only drivers has similar security properties,
> whether it's Linux, OSX, or Windows.

Which UNIX variants have the system Windows has for driver filters?

As far as I know, nobody else has been that stupid except for Microsoft.

Binary only drivers definitely are *NOT* a similar security problem.

I'm talking about something quite different.

Read up on Starforce and things like that to see what I mean.