I am sitting here at Web 2.0 Expo, and I have to admit I am a bit of a noob when it comes to using my computer in a public place like an expo. But I have just made a troubling discovery while sitting waiting for the keynotes to begin. There were several Macs that I had file level read access to, that were visible from the Finder.
Essentially, Mac users are able to configure their computers to discover and allow other people to have access to theic computers. I never really thought about how dangerous the feature can be. Perhaps Macs should warn you on boot up when your world is totally open to the public.
4 comments:
HAHAHA!
Im not a Micro$oft fan...but Im not a Mac fan either!
This just shows that no OS is "way above the other" (well, Vista just plainly sucks, quoting Mr. Williams).
Pay attention, cause EVERYBODY makes mistakes!
P.D. I wonder where all the Mac fans that usually attack any non Mac friendly posts are right now? Maybe fixing that! (lol)
By default file sharing is disabled - you have to activate the SAMBA service yourself.
It may be useful to remind users that the service is still running when joining an untrusted network, but that may have its own drawbacks as users may get fed up with nagging dialogue boxes whenever they're in Starbucks.
Having wifi profiles might be useful - only have certain services running when in an untrusted network by default...
s/Mac's/Macs
@Bill:
What??
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