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Re: Securing ActiveX.



On Sat, 14 Dec 1996 [email protected] wrote:
>I do not understand how one can secure ActiveX.

Me neither! But the approach of requiring code signatures so you can
at least break the fingers of whomever damaged your machine does have
some merit.

[email protected] (Ray Arachelian) writes:
> Simple.  Check out Windows NT, under NT you can write/run programs as 
> services which log in as an account.  When you do this, that service 
> program is limited to the security restrictions of that account.

This is kind of like running servers in Unix as another user in a
chrooted partition? That doesn't work, either.