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Yeah! Let's go and repeat all Windows flawed decisions!

First - the windows firewall which in no time involved into one button [ALLOW] because millions of stupid users were bombarded customer support.

Lets try to establish a privilege separation everywhere, so all users will work as administrators. Lets make code bloated and slow, only because it is a proper way of doing security.

btw, do you know, which is best security solution for Windows? The low-level full restore from a copy of just installed system form the second hard drive. Most of public PC providers are using this strategy.

So, the answer is fast, easy and idiot-prof re-flash procedure.




that's not going to bring back the copies of my contacts, private photos, passwords and banking details which have been broadcast to the internet


Leaving banking account details on a public PC is called stupidity. ^_^

You can use something as a storage of critical data, or as a runner for some garbage. Even at Microsoft they don't browse porn-sites from their servers.




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