On Wed, 15 May 2002, Ronald LeVine wrote: > > I was not suggesting that completely erradicating malcode was possible but > we can sure slow it way down. The fact is that Sys-admins are generally not > living up to their responsibility on this. The time has come to do so. The > web has had serious outages already. This could have been prevented to some > extent with a good security policy in place at the individual server level.
The problem is that there is an inherent tension between security and usefullness. For instance I would like to be able to deal with the windows virus problem by adding the following to my .procmailrc :0 * X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express.* /dev/null Since it would be radically effective; unfortunately it's politically unacceptable, and since I do have to deal with people regardless of the program they use I can't even do so on my personal account since the clueless and lazy ye will always have with you eagerly-learning-spamassassin-rule-writing-ly yours larry http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi)
