Educational Software Don’t Care For Security!
I’m pissed off! Educational softwares don’t care for security at all! I have two daughters and, like all children, they like to play on the computer. As they cannot use my own systems (of course!), they have access to a laptop where games and educational softwares are installed.
They have their own accounts and no administrative rights! So, when they receive a new CD/DVDROM, it must be installed by myself, I’ve no problem with this but… Often, the software requires administrative rights (it try to write files in a forbidden directory), files are only available to the administrator (no shortcut nor menu are created) or even does not start at all! It just like back to the eighties when only one application can run at a time!
Dear developers, could you please take core of security when you write applications? Even more for children!
On my computer, *I* have admin rights – my parents don’t.
There’s a nice thing from Microsoft, “Application Compatibility Kit” I think, which can be used to make applications compatible with Windows XP. One of its modules (“LUARedirect” IIRC) allows to redirect file writes to user directory.
There’s also a nice thing called “ntpasswd”, that can reset WinNT account passwords or promote accounts to “Administrators” – very useful at school.