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RE: A rather newbie question
From: Tremaine Lea <tremaine.lea () sjrb ca>
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 15:42:14 -0600
-----Original Message----- From: David Hane [mailto:dlhane () sbcglobal net] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 1:35 PM To: Harlan Carvey; Schmidt, Michael R.; 'Ethan Vaughn'; full-disclosure () lists netsys com Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] A rather newbie question
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While I think you have a point I also think Ethan has one too. It is important to remember that users are generally clueless and/or unconcerned with security. Of course I'm grossly generalizing but I think you get my point. Keeping in mind that the weakest link can be the average user is always a good idea. And who would argue with idiot proofing any system, computer or otherwise? So I think a little harmless joking amongst ourselves isn't necessarily all bad :-) After all, how many ID10T errors have you fixed in the last week ;-P
The question is, how harmless is the joking, really? In all fairness to users, they may have a great deal of inexperience with our specialty... But frankly, I also can't practice medicine, or law, or fix more than a very general problem with a car.... This makes me inexperienced or ignorant (in the dictionary sense) but hardly makes me stupid. We live in a very specialized world, and it is the technical nature of things that a degree of specialization is required in order to competently and effectively carry out a designated task. Tremaine _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- RE: A rather newbie question Harlan Carvey (May 03)
- Re: A rather newbie question David Hane (May 03)
- Re: A rather newbie question Harlan Carvey (May 03)
- Re: A rather newbie question Ethan Vaughn (May 03)
- Re: A rather newbie question David Hane (May 03)
- Re: A rather newbie question Valdis . Kletnieks (May 03)
- Re: A rather newbie question madsaxon (May 03)
- Re: A rather newbie question dk (May 03)
- Re: A rather newbie question Bart . Lansing (May 04)
- Re: A rather newbie question David Hane (May 04)
- RE: A rather newbie question Harlan Carvey (May 03)