[cap-talk] Windows Vista: security by admonition

[David Hopwood]

Micah Brodsky wrote:
> For the case of extraordinary permissions, though, I'm not sure that
> admonishment can't also be made useably secure. In many systems, it is
> already common for "dangerous" actions to be accompanied by admonitions. For
> example, most GUI file managers ask you to confirm file deletions, and users
> seem happy with this.

I'm not. I would much prefer an undo feature that worked consistently for
all filesystem operations.

Windows has a "recycle bin" for undoing delete operations, but it still
pesters me whether I really wanted to delete the file. I don't remember ever
having clicked 'No' at that prompt.

(There is a different prompt that warns that a collection of files is too big
to be moved to the recycle bin. That one is necessary.)

-- 
David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk>