Originally Posted by deepsix

The reason their concern ends? the OS: (or marketing)
people mimick what they are taught is secure, and most people start on windows. Im not picking on windows the same goes with linux, mac, and any other os out there.

you see the problem is the same as the example I gave about Yahoo.
what happens when the normal user boots up his pc? he gets a login screen. that login screen encrypts his password and allows him access to his account. ( the same way as on yahoo) but his my documents and everything on that account are readable by anyone with an account on the computer by default. (im talking about the home editions of windows you know the ones that ask for a username and password but if you hit cancel or login without entering anything you get a desktop anyway?) <--- some linux distros are actually trying to mimick this with auto login and dont get me started on sudo as the only means of accessing root.
and some of the linux distros that arent doing those things are using lax files permissions that allow another user to browse another users directory by default. I just think it would benefit everryone if all filesystems were encyrpted by default and creating programs that use encrypted sockets and any data transfered from one filesystem to another was done through an encrypted tunnel.

I dont know...I might sound paranoid to some people or stupid to others.
and some of this may never happen but it sounds good, it draws up on paper but problably will never happen. or maybe it will