There are two polar attitudes toward problems of this sort, viz.,
Was ist nicht erlaubt is verboten (What is not allowed is forbidden).
and
Was ist nicht verboten ist erlaubt (What is not forbidden is allowed).
The second of them has three great merits:
o It does not require uncommon, even God-like prescience;
o It does not cumber the working environment with barred windows and culs de
sac; and
o It is much less labor-intensive than the first.
Computer-security problems are real; but we now have a large and growing
group of computer-security specialists who have a vested, bureaucratic
interest in devoting more and more resources to treating these problems
simplistically; and these 'specialists' are hard to oppose without being
attacked as naif or in league with the villains.
John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721-1817
USA
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