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Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories
From: Jerry Pasker <jerry () jerry org>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 15:33:13 -0500
Bad hardware and application software cause a lot more problems than the operating system itself. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
Bad users cause more problems than everything else combined. Doesn't matter if you're running windows, bsd, linux, OS X, or whatever. When a dumb user does a dumb thing, dumb things happen.
Doesn't matter really, if it's an OS that gets asked to run malware, and then is blamed for corrupting itself, or an SUV who's airbags and crumple zones fail to keep the driver alive that was spacing off and talking on a cell phone when they crossed in front of a semi. The end result is the same: Technology, and the intelligent individuals that create it can only do so much to prevent a stupid individual from causing damage to themselves and others.
If anyone wants to argue against this, I beg of them to read http://www.mentalsoup.com/mentalsoup/basic.htm first. -Jerry --
Current thread:
- WashingtonPost computer security stories Sean Donelan (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Hank Nussbacher (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Owen DeLong (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Deepak Jain (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories David Lesher (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories John Underhill (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Sean Donelan (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Jerry Pasker (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 17)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Hank Nussbacher (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Doug White (Aug 15)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Henry Linneweh (Aug 16)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 16)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Mark Kasten (Aug 16)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Alexei Roudnev (Aug 16)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Sean Donelan (Aug 16)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) David Lesher (Aug 17)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Michael . Dillon (Aug 17)