On Thursday 01 July 2004 3:23 pm, Russ Johnson wrote:
> >I almost have a
> >hard time holding any attackers responsible for this kind of thing. That
> >would be like painting your IP address and root passwd on a billboard
> >along I-5.
>
> Just because you lose the key to your house, with the address tag
> attached, does not give anyone the right to enter your house without
> your permission.
This has nothing to do with giving anyone the right to enter your house.
Indeed, it has nothing to do with any kind of rights.
It has to do with personal responsibility. If you live in Oakland (CA, not
OR) failing to put bars on your ground-floor windows is akin to BEGGING
burglars to come in & have their way with your domicile. It's still illegal
for the burglars to do it, and they certainly do not have any right to enter
your home.
Doesn't matter. You'll still get robbed and your neighbors will consider you
stupid for failing to take what is, in that locale, a basic safety measure.
Well, the Internet isn't much different from Oakland. By now anyone
responsible for security who doesn't know the dangers of connecting a
Microsoft system to the Internet should be fired.
I agree with Joseph. Anybody that stupid almost deserves to get hacked. Or,
as former White House cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke once said, "If you
spend more on coffee than IT security ... you deserve to get hacked."
Ken
--
"The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the
collective society that is coming, where everyone would be interdependent."
-- John Dewey, architect of the U.S. public school system
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