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more on MIT says it won't admit hackers
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 09:40:27 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Sheryl Coe - Reportica <reportica () gmail com> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 05:59:56 -0500 To: <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] more on MIT says it won't admit hackers As a parent, I teach my kids to take things apart to learn more about them. Back up urls, view source, remove or change the variables at the end of an url and see what happens. It's the intellectual equivalent of taking apart old toasters before you throw them away. I don't want my kids to worry about risking a serious crime, right in our living room, just by being curious about how urls work. If that's the case, every web page should come complete with it's own splash page with FBI WARNING splashed before you can read it. Silly. I know someone who felt they had been hacked because a friend put their phone number into google and clicked on the map link to see where they lived. An unforgivable invasion of privacy. I know it would be more convenient for the corporate world for us to be passive consumers, but we're not. They're going to have to learn or pay for secure 'secure' web sites. Or keep data off the net. The bad guys won't read the terms-of-use fine print linked at the bottom of each page. That's not security. Sheryl Coe ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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