Re: Future Impact of Viruses on Internet

[Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>]

To give credit where it's due, I appear to have duplicated the insight
that Gary Flynn described in his article cited this morning at
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~flynngn/whatnext.htm

Gary Dobbins wrote:

> A good comparison - it sure feels more like the CB, than the freeway,
> these days.  CB's being unable to discriminate between licensed and
> unlicensed transmissions, the FCC could be cornered into dropping the
> reg.  Here, we have the technology (but not yet the culture
> widespread) to permit selective acceptance of only vouched-for traffic
> (e.g. PGP, IPsec, X.509, etc).

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--Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College
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  "The difference between Genius and Stupidity - Genius has its
limits." --Albert Einstein.

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