Re: need help in managing administrators

["T Biehn" <tbiehn () gmail com>]

I guess there's only one real alternative to this terrible circle of
doom then: stop feeding in to the man's machine and become a blackhat
and stop disclosing.
*waits for Valdis to hand in his hat & authorization to use FD.

On Dec 6, 2007 2:12 AM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:36:30 +1300, Nick FitzGerald said:
> > likelihood of those problems being permanently addressed, why were
> > these issues not addressed at some point when the cost/performance
> > points started to be more favourable?
>
> Because when the price/performance shifted to make lots of security features
> more feasible, the *same* shift also made it possible to display dancing
> hamsters.  And one latecomer on particular to the dance decided its best
> business strategy was selling things that made hamsters dance, and were
> monopolisticically successful at it, to the point where the well has been
> poisoned, and it's now a hard sell to convince people that the hamsters (or
> any other sort of "active content") are a security risk.....
>
> (To be fair, it *must* be noted that when looked at as a *financial* question,
> the marketing of hamsters over security was in fact a *good* decision on the
> part of the company - glitz is cheaper than security design, and it sells more.
> And for-profit corporations are there to make a profit, sooo.....)
>
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