Hey cbleman, just curious what the issue with the libraries is. I've been pondering on that since I saw your original post. Seriously not trying to be inflamatory, just really curious as I do security and privacy work all the time and it may just be a different view than what we've seen before.
No problem.
ooooo... Now you did it. The soap box comes out. ;-D I am the only account on my machine. The two major issues I have are,
1. When anyone else is on my machine, it puts all of my files in one place to be viewed by whoever borrows the machine. I really don't have anything to hide, but I'm a real buthole about my privacy. This is a wonderful thing for people that do not, or cannot manage their hard drives, or newbies that can easily loose a saved file. For me though, it's a serious threat to my privacy.
2. I'm paranoid! I don't like programs pawing through my hard drive, and listing all of my files in one place.
As a security and privacy person, you probably know, if a serious intruder (or government agency wanting to monitor the public.) gets onto a computer, there is no hiding. I can see no reason however to make things easy. Toward that end, I even have indexing turned off.
In surprising contradiction to this however, I detest UAC. I have disabled it to the best of my ability on my Win 7 machine, and turned it down as far as I can in my Win 8 machine. When I crippled it on the Win 8 machine, I found out that MS has blackmailed me/us into not disabling it. I guess (In their opinion) they think it's for our own good. My APPS will not run when I disable it.
This I feel, is another miserable program. It will not let me work with some of MY OWN FILES! Even as an administrator! Others list specific files and applications in forums. I even get nagged in the super secret administrator mode. This is a hot topic with my peers. UAC I feel is to restrictive, and nags to much. Microsoft's security concerns are noted, but there needs to be a balance between security, and usability. For instance - I had a lot of calls, because customers could not open E-mail attachments after we did a full install at their home. Microsoft had, at that time, set the default on their E-mail program to NOT open attachments! While this was an easy fix for me, not being able to open attachments as a default seemed to me to be very silly. Sending pictures of the family, and work file attachments are a part of everyday life. Security/Usability. Where to draw the line is a hard decision. I feel the ultimate decision and responsibility belongs with the user. Not Microsoft. Of course I realize, if I turn off UAC and my computer gets trashed due to malicious activity, it's my own stupid fault. Others, on the flip side, think it's insanity to disable it, turn it down, or off. Everyone needs to be able to decide for themselves. Not have someone else's or group of persons opinions inflicted on them.
That was a good question. I hope I have answered it. I CAN go on, and on and.... Well, Thank you for allowing me to break out my soap box.