Is Tactile Interrogator open source or Free Software?
no. The main reasons are security concerns. The underlying filesystem is the same on all of our platforms: Unix. There are a number of things that change completely when you get to Windows. The traditional rwx permission bits are replaced with a complex ACL system, and although Interrogator 1.2 and beyond support Unix ACLs, they are very different. For example, in Windows, there is no way to set a directory’s permission to completely choke off access to files underneath as there is in Unix. If you can guess that there’s a file c:/winnt/system32/cmd.exe, and someone forgot to set permissions on that file itself, any hacker or websurfer can run it if they ask for the right path.
