Running with Least Privilege

Wanted to play some squash this morning, but couldn't make it as I had to take my wife to work and get my daughter off to school. Which is just as well... I basically killed myself on the treadmill yesterday. Was good to get everything done I wanted this weekend, and then some.

This weekend I was running an app that would not work for me. Ended up the author didn't think about the fact some of us run our operating systems in a least privilege environment, so we can't just write files arbitrarily to the Windows directory, or to registry keys belonging to the system. It got me thinking about how to many people take this for granted, and I decided to write an article on it.

This morning, I woke up to find that my article, posted on The Code Project hit a few nerves, both in the good and bad camps. Most of the comments I have received have been via private email, but a few commented on the article online. All and all, I had over 250 emails to read. Good to see I have some people thinking. Was even cooler to get some acknowlegements from some of the security experts I respect who said I was bang on. The few negative emails I got were people who don't have a clue, and I am not going to convince them other wise. Oh well.

Right now I am playing with an eight channel mixing board and a funky mic that the Chief has leant me to do some voice over recordings for my flash presentation. I don't have any real experience with sound mixing, but all the neat knobs sure look fun to play with. I now understand why Limos likes doing this so much. Now if I can just figure out how to use n-Track Studio (Apparenlty an excellent audio & MIDI multitrack recorder), I should be able to make some professional quality recordings. Time will tell I guess. I was hoping Limos was going to help me out, but he seems to have forgotten about this. I'll just fight with it and see what I can do.

Speaking of which... I need to go deal with the inputs on this dang mic. TTYL