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Re: Anti-MS drivel
From: "Mary Landesman" <mlande () bellsouth net>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:13:08 -0500
not lose your keys on purpose
Does anyone lose their keys on purpose? :-) As I stated originally, you can reduce the risk but you can never alleviate it entirely. Windows can be broken, locks can be picked, heck, use a chainsaw and you can slice right through pretty much any part of it. Of course, it requires physical presence which raises the risk of being caught, hence it's not very likely. Conversely, using the Internet to anonymously launch exploits is pretty much risk-free - some might argue it's ideally suited to the cowardly criminal. Sometimes smarts plays a part, but never guts. Now, MS has made bad decisions but they are not unique in this regard. They certainly have more at stake, given the numbers of users, thus their bad decisions tend to be very high profile. I suspect that when and if they achieve their Trusted Computing goals, many of the same anti-MS folks will shift their focus to complaining about the privacy and censorship issues it brings to the table. Ironically, the very people who seek to publicly decry and exploit every MS flaw are the ones who are helping to force TC into reality. For more on the implications, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html -- Mary _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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