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Re: The home user problem returns
From: "Dale W. Carder" <dwcarder () doit wisc edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:35:08 -0500
On Sep 12, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Mason Schmitt wrote:
Look at the electrical utilities (I'm going to assume North America).
The key to your analogy is the involvement of government regulation, as you noted. Without it, we would probably still have exposed wires running to our ceiling fans.
The big problem is that the Internet right now is very much like the "Wild West" - it's young, immature, un-controlled and much about how it should work is still unknown.
And, it's working as designed (security is an end station problem).
Getting back to computers and the Internet... If these sorts of controlsand industry maturity were in place, home users wouldn't be such a problem.
It just needs to mature.
No, we as Wizards, need to step up to the plate to create demand for interoperable security measures. Sitting around and waiting for these issues to get fixed for us is working about as well as user education. Dale _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- Re: The home user problem returns Mason Schmitt (Sep 13)