Re: User Education Tool?

[Dave Aronson <securecoding () dja mailme org>]

On Thu March 4 2004 17:45, Andreas Saurwein wrote:
> At 4/3/2004 18:16 Thursday, Dave Aronson wrote:
> > Either way (especially if the manual forwarding is done with the
> > help of pulling up the contact list), you can bet some jackass
> > will attach a malicious payload, probably triggered right *after*
> > you spread it.  So much for being able to treat it as innocent.
>
> Right, that would probably happen. But in the end, it would still do
> its job :-?

You might get through to the occasional one with a particularly thin 
skull (for a luser, that is).  However, keep in mind that there are 
fresh hordes of newbies signing up every day.  The problem boils down 
to a lack of a revocable "information superhighway driver's license".  
However, it's much too late to try to institute any such thing now, not 
that we'd ever agree on an authority to administer it, let alone trust 
any authority with such power.

But we're getting WAAAAY off topic....

[Ed. Yeah, I'd like to request that we officially pronounce this thread
dead.  KRvW]

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