From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 12:45:15 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: <20141201103810.GA541@polynum.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Factotum vs SASL Topicbox-Message-UUID: 30a809dc-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > But, IMHO, this is precisely the difference between Unix and Plan9. The important difference is that in Unix the "terminal", specially graphics terminals like X servers, have to be trusted to be in good hands - which cannot be enforced. When you look at NFS, for example, a trusted network node can totally subvert security if the trust cannot be ensured. Plan 9 gets around all these issues by putting security where it belongs and not giving a false sense of security by means of sobscure protocols and other ineffectual means. Lucio.