Re: Warning: ShareSniffer Released

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From: John Navas
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 16:35

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On the contrary -- just as I applaud and welcome safe tires, I would
applaud and welcome safe computing.  Properly implemented, it would not
be limiting -- that's a common misconception.

In <RPDl6.2610$IV6.161273@news1.news.adelphia.net>, "Oberiss"
<oberiss@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Yet if all computers were to be made specifically to protect a "typical home
>user" from a security breach, therefore limiting the users' ability to
>customize and configure and do whatever they want to thier own pc, you would
>be the first to cry for your good ol' "defective design" computer back.

>"John Navas" <spamfilter@navasgrp.dublin.ca.us> wrote in message
>news:zgBl6.3896$S25.55135@typhoon.sonic.net...

>> With all due respect, this is a matter of defective design, not cockpit
>> error.  When someone gets seriously injured because Firestone tires
>> separated, you blame Firestone, not the hapless driver that was
>> unfortunate enough to buy and use them.  The problem here is that
>> computers being sold to average people are inherently and inexcusably
>> insecure.  Average people shouldn't have to be security experts to use
>> computers on the Internet any more than they should have to be
>> automotive experts to drive a car on the road.

-- 
Best regards,
John Navas     <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/>
     CABLE MODEM/DSL GUIDE:  <http://Cable-DSL.home.att.net/>

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