Securing ActiveX.

Nelson Minar nelson at media.mit.edu
Mon Dec 16 14:42:41 PST 1996


On Sat, 14 Dec 1996 ichudov at algebra.com 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.

sunder at brainlink.com (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.






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