Re: Whoops! (re: WH network monitoring plan response)

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>]

This is obviously a "great truth" - a statement whose opposite is also 
true.

Regards and Best Wishes
Marshall Eubanks

On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 03:31 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu 
wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:26:09 EST, Richard Forno said:
> > In my last post when I said this:
> > > If something's deemed 'critical' to a large segment of the 
> > > population, then
> > > security must NEVER outweigh conveinience. Period. Non-negotiable.
> > I meant to say that security must ALWAYS outweigh convienience.
> >
> > My goof....guess I had too much NOG and not enough NAN at the party 
> > last
> > night.  :)
>
> A case could be made that you had it right the first time, in that a 
> "large
> segment" of the population cares less about security than they do 
> about dancing
> hamsters, and that they'd designate the latter as "critical".  Thus 
> the sorry
> state of certain end-user software on 90% of the desktops.
>
> Happy Holidays! ;)
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