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As far as the social eneenigring thing goes, at least for Linux, Firefox is the major browser and it's just not as attractive as a target as IE on Windows is, since it has much less access to the OS (though I suppose IE7 helps that a bit and IE8 will be even better). I mean, people could be writing cross-platform attacks against Firefox, but I haven't seen any major ones. In terms of interfaces, the idea is to create a series of small actions that can do everything, and not to provide a lot of convenience functions unless they're just wrappers over a series of the simple functions. More of a building blocks than a buildings method.There's plenty of Unix malware, but I agree, it's pretty uncommon that it'd be installed through social eneenigring as opposed to say, brute forcing SSH. The nice thing about that security issue is that you can close it up just by disabling password access (it's a very small attack surface).I agree that Vista and Win7 are going in the right direction, though MS will still have a serious legacy problem (at least for the next decade or so). And I think we can all agree that many Windows APIs (particularly legacy ones) are more complex than they need to be (partially because Windows is kind of engineered to be a one-size-fits-all product, so we have enterprise-level features and APIs even on our desktops).-Max
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