If you want to subvert the "internet drivers license" meme, insist that it is applications and hardware that should have the drivers license.
Inform that its not a people problem, but and identity problems around applications and hardware. Use the "drivers license" meme as it has momentum, just divert it from people to software. -rick Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: > Well, the alternative would be for Craig and his company to pay some > attention to the quality of their software, but that would cost some > serious money. > > So, much more useful for them to divert attention from the genesis of > the whole problem: their OS; and let governments clean it up, all while, > naturally, making the barrier to entry for competitors to his company > much higher. > > As long as you understand that the senior execs of US Publicly traded > companies parse Milton Friedman's famous dictum to suit their personal > (lack of) morality: > > The full dictum is (their referring to the shareholders): "That > responsi-bility is to conduct the business in accordance with their > desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible while > con-forming to the basic rules of the society, both those embodied in > law and those embodied in ethical custom." Milton Friedman, New York > Times Magazine, September 13, 1970 > > http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/libertarians/issues/friedman-soc-r > esp-business.html > > Generally, they paraphrase that to be "maximize shareholder value", > sometimes "within the limits of the Law", by which they tend to mean > whatever you can get away with for a cost of lawsuit that is less than > the cost of doing the right thing. > > You will note that Friedman had a much broader view: that they conform > to the basic rules of society " both those embodied in law and those > embodied in ethical custom." > > However, you will find precious few captains of industry of the last 30 > years operate on a principle more elevated than: "You'll be gone, I'll > be gone, I got mine". > > Craig Mundie is just an apologist for his Uncle Fester lookalike boss: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/07/13/ballmer_is_fester_and_we/ > > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Paul Ferguson >> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 4:50 PM >> To: funsec >> Subject: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses' >> > The meme that seemingly will not die -- Craig Mundie, chief research > and > strategy officer for Microsoft, mentions it again: > > http://rawstory.com/2010/01/agency-calls-global-cyberwarfare-treaty- > drivers > -license-web-users/ > > Enjoy! > > - ferg > >> >> >> -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
