At 8:54 AM -0800 11/27/01, Gilles Gravier wrote: >Oh... FBI thing... so do they expect to have a version working for >Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris (had to name that one), Mac, Palm, >BeOS (OK... they're dead)... and who knows what else? > >If they only cover Windoze (which is likely) the result will be that >the criminal / paranoid / privacy freak / hacker community will just >plain migrate to another OS... Which would be good for the world, >don't you think?
There are a lot of interesting parallels between biological systems and computer systems. One of them is that a virus can spread like wildfire in a monoculture. Diversity is good for both kinds of systems. Cheers - Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | The principal effect of| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | DMCA/SDMI is to prevent| 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | fair use. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
