Re: funsec Digest, Vol 50, Issue 16

[RandallM <randallm () fidmail com>]

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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:50:21 -0400
> From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
> Subject: Re: [funsec] dumb. Comcast pop-ups
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
> Message-ID: <20091011135021.GA20770 () gsp org>
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> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 09:29:13AM -0700, Alex Lanstein wrote:
> > I like that Comcast is at least trying /something/ to protect their users.
>
> This is a very feeble attempt.
>
> Consider: they are going to send these pop-ups to systems that they
> have reason to believe -- based on externally-visible evidence --
> are compromised.
>
> So, either those systems are compromised or they're not.
>
> If they're not, then they're annoying people who have nothing to fix,
> and the result of this will be training those people to ignore the pop-ups.

Common folks. No one is addressing yet how mom, pop, uncle, auntie and
the click everything teenagers are going to "GET" them clean. How is
this going to be proposed?


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a.k.a System
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