A Christmas Computer Bug, and the Future of Files

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In 1987, a German student wrote CHRISTMA EXEC - a virus whose basic mechanisms still work if you port them to today's desktop computers. Why haven't we changed in nearly 30 years? And what could we do instead? Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night. http://tomscott.com FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/tomscott TWITTER: http://twitter.com/tomscott INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/tomscottgo The Park Bench will continue over Christmas: http://youtube.com/mattandtom/ "It made a generation who could code A bubble before proper consoles, who all know That the games you get today, Well, they might be very flash, But they'll never beat the thrill of getting through Jetpac" -- MJ Hibbett and the Validators, Hey Hey 16K: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts96J7HhO28

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No. This is the worst feature of phones and tablets - they fail to separate the programs from the files that they run. They are conceptually different objects and so should remain separate. Otherwise, you might have a 5 GB mp4 that you have to duplicate for VLC, Windows Media Player, Power DVD, and Premiere. And what's worse is that you might be editing the file in one program and then opening it in another repeatedly, so you have to copy it each time you do this. Same thing with image files - you want to be able to open them with Preview, Firefox, Chrome, GIMP, Illustrator, and Photoshop without creating duplicates. If you're doing this purely for the sake of security, then instead just take the conventional route and set correct permissions and ownership for each file.

I like the idea, I would prefer it was more like android, where when you install an app it get's it's on "slilo" of which is only what is it allowed to use, and each silo is also a folder, and if the user gives it permission to your filesystem only then can the app read all documents and files, ect.

Hm Android allows access to all the file system...

Too bad 2016 sucked.

Your red shirt habit reminds me of LindyBeige and his well Beige dress shirt habit.

You are ginius !! Yes I agree!! Free is Dancerous, only profesionals do... all computers in the world have mallwar now ... I believe .. Have a good Christamas ...

When that pop up happened at 3:05 looked so real until I noticed it had a windows 7 GUI.

Oh, you sounded so optimistic about 2016. But looking back at it from Tuesday the 20th of December i can safely say it really really sucked ( I mean it didn't if you are a Trump supporter who supports the leave campaign) so this time let's reallly really hope for a good 2017 because if it is going to suck it cannot possibly be as awful as 2016

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I find Android devices to be a nice compromise: some abstraction and sandboxing but still very customizable, even without rooting (which grants the power to do pretty much everything)

Hey @TomScott you might want to take a look at the "Qubes" OSes approach

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Reminds me of Virtual machine spaces. Not backwards compatible for sure, but we don't have to leave the gates open to learn they system.

If I had to deal with my PC treating stuff like my phone with a separate user for each program etc. I think I'd go mental. Then again I'm a programmer.

That's why we have the mandatory access control.

Tom that's exactly what we do, put programs in there own little silos. App-V, Virtual Machines. etc.

Qubes OS segregates programs into their own spaces, and you can put more than one program in the same space if you wish or push files from one space to another.

Windows won't run applications from 20 years ago, because they are all written in 16bit which you can't run since vista

its called sandboxing.
Linux comunity is slowly moving toword it.