Are file permissions in files on external devices silly?

[tchomby]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:43:16PM +0000, Sam Tygier wrote:
> 
> The mac os solution is to have a 'enforce permissions on this device' option 
> (in the info/properties of the device). maybe this could be implemented in a 
> similar way to the .is_audio_player file [0].

A checkbox in the properties dialog of the drive. Maybe unchecked by default. 
Sounds like a good solution to me.