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Re: What do you want your ISP to block today? [OT]

  • From: Gabriel
  • Date: Wed Sep 03 16:43:43 2003 
Owen,

Owen DeLong wrote:
Sorry... "Millions of vulnerable users" are only vulnerable because those
users chose to run vulnerable systems. They have the responsibility to
do what is necessary to correct the vulnerabilities in the systems they
chose to run.
Most of them don't know any better than to run what they've got. Computer users, by and in large, are not at all educated in the nature of what their running, or the potential issues due to running Windows. Who tells them that they shouldn't run Windows?

This is akin to driving a pinto, knowing that it's a bomb, and expecting
your local DOT to build explosion-proof freeways.
Your analogy is flawed. The problem is, most people don't realize that:
1.) Windows is as flawed as it is,
2.) That there are real alternatives.

But, I suspect, this has gone far off the topic of Operations. Take this off-list; there's nothing to be gained from this discussion any further.

ObOperational:
Did anybody see some strange latency on UU.Net yesterday in the Chicago area?

Gabriel

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