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Re: FW: Facebook may get 'panic button'


From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:19:05 -0700

The founder of computer science knew this:

 

"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still
in a room"

 

Blaise Pascal.

 

 

From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Joel Esler
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 8:42 PM
To: Dan Kaminsky
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org; Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Subject: Re: [funsec] FW: Facebook may get 'panic button'

 

Truer words were never spoken.

 

 

On Mar 18, 2010, at 6:34 PM, Dan Kaminsky wrote:





 

        So what problem is the panic button actually solving?


Here's the deal.

Somebody died.
We must do something.
This is something.

This is a guiding principal of human psychology.  Most policy comes from
redressing a death.

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