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Re: WEEPING FOR WEP
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:44:58 -0400
On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:05:00 MDT, Bruce Ediger said:
Wait just a minute. Do you propose to say that "security" is an economic good, with associated opportunity costs and benefits? But just the other day, all the anti-virus vendors and trade rags in the world seemed to say that "security" was binary, and "on" is the preferred state.
Well, people who do it for a living understand it's a tradeoff continuum, where fractional values make sense, and the most sensible setting varies from place to place. But when you're trying to sell to Joe Sixpack, or a PHB in upper management, confusing him with more than two choices ("Good" and "Bad") just pisses him off and loses you the sale.
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