Hi
10 Jul 2001, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> SH> I hardly ever hear of any prosecutions. Why don't they crack
>> SH> down and put a stop to this crime?
>> The *REAL* crime is that this person called gbill sells his shit
>> further! Why don't they crack down on him ?
SH> Good question.
SH> They ought to bring a lawsuit against him based on product safety.
good idea ;)
>> SH> Oftentimes a culprit who can be clearly identified will send
>> SH> a virus to everyone on his mailing list.
>> either he is also infected, and the virus sends itself further, or
>> the culprit is *NOT* identifieable easily and is usually cloaked
>> VERY well.
SH> You are saying that viruses infect other computers. This is false.
not really
SH> The computer operators who have allowed their machines to become
SH> infected with the viruses will infect other computers.
you are able to go into a shop and buy a computer.
Without a license.
How should you know what a virus is, and what to do not to get one ?
SH> What you have said is equivalent to saying that guns murder people.
they do ... with the help of insane people.
SH> This is also false. People who mis-use guns murder people.
every use of a gun is mis-use
but the difference is, that it is very hard to kill somebody without
noticing.
But it is easy to get infected without noticing !
SH> Computer users are also to blame because they are not forced to "sieg
SH> heil" and to goose-step to the orders of the Culprit-In-Chief.
but people are dumb ... very dumb
(look at the elections in austria where the idiotic FPOE got 28%,
or even worse America were an illiterate, gun-lobby-controlled idiot is
president ....)
SH> Resistance is a quite viable option for everyone.
don't forhet that thinking hurts ...
SH> Any product or service that we don't absolutely need may be most
SH> successfully boycotted.
but using not really necessary services can be very handy.
(nobody needs HTML mails, but some say that they like the additional
capabilities like colors and different fonts.
And I have also opened ftp and telnet in addition to scp and ssh ...
because I want to be able to access my computer also from places without
scp/ssh clients. Although I know that these services transmit passwords in
clear)
it's allways a matter of risk compared to gain.
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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