Happy Helpful web apps that just need port xx open....

["Daniel Sichel" <daniels () Ponderosatel com>]

> Sorry, no way on earth am I gonna run your wretched java virus/trojan
just 
> in order to get the opportunity to have marketing bullshit rammed down
my 
> throat.  It's utter GARBAGE to claim that installing some completely
unknown 
> java application is somehow a "safe environment" compared to reading
plain 
> text emails.

>   cheers,
>     DaveK

Very succintly put. Anybody who thinks that blindly downloaded software
running in a virtual machine  is safe deserves what they get. Anybody
who opens a hole in their firewall to accommodate it probably also wants
to help Nigerian Billionaires transfer their money to a US bank account.
Sigh. Sadly the Dilbert bosses hear this marketing pablum, believe it,
then criticize their security/network people as overly negative and
resistant to change when they oppose this crap. 

Do you suppose there is any way we could buy off, er I mean pursuade,
the trial lawyers to get civil liability to attach to negligently
misrepresented software?

Dan Sichel CCNP, MCSE
Network Engineer
Ponderosa Telephone
daniels () ponderosatel com (559) 868-6367
 
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