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I thought this group might enjoy the following posting from alt.tolkien, reported in alt.humor.best-of-usenet: -------------------------------------------------------------- On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 07:57:08 +0000 (UTC), in alt.humor.best-of-usenet Donald Shepherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Subject: Re: why did Sauron have to make the Elves make their rings? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (coyotes rand mair fheal greykitten tomys des Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Sul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why did Sauron have to make the Elves make their rings before he could make > a ruling ring? perhaps because they would not accept closed source software by developing their rings themselves with full access to the source code they could delude themselkves that nobody could slip in a trojan horse but sauron was cleverer even if only as a consultant managed to slip in the trapdoor so that he could hack in remotely and subvert the systems humans then as now were willing dupes to accept a closed system without concern for its vunerability to hackers and worms until it was too late and they were locked into a propeitary system dwarves empolyed firewalls to protect their systems which worked well enough against more subtle attacks but worms could still breach their firewalls and bring their sustems down its interesting to compare the effectiveness of saurons ring network to elbereths star network
