more on MIT says it won't admit hackers

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Sheryl Coe - Reportica <reportica () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 05:59:56 -0500
To: <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on MIT says it won't admit hackers

As a parent, I teach my kids to take things apart to learn more about
them.  Back up urls, view source, remove or change the variables at
the end of an url and see what happens. It's the intellectual
equivalent of taking apart old toasters before you throw them away.

I don't want my kids to worry about risking a serious crime, right in
our living room, just by being curious about how urls work.  If that's
the case, every web page should come complete with it's own splash
page with FBI WARNING splashed before you can read it. Silly.

I know someone who felt they had been hacked because a friend put
their phone number into google and clicked on the map link to see
where they lived. An unforgivable invasion of privacy.

I know it would be more convenient for the corporate world for us to
be passive consumers, but we're not.  They're going to have to learn
or pay for secure 'secure' web sites. Or keep data off the net.

The bad guys won't read the terms-of-use fine print linked at the
bottom of each page.  That's not security.

Sheryl Coe




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