begin quoting John Oliver as of Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:13:34AM -0700:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:16:22AM -0700, Lan Barnes wrote:
[snip]
> > I will share that I have become so cynical that every time I see a "be
> > afraid -- be very afraid" news story, from bird flu to these cyber crime
> > panics, I suspect it's a plant to establish grounds for yet another
> > government power grab.
>
> Isn't that the truth? What's next, the Homeland Department of Computer
> Security? We all must register our computers, "for our own protection"?
> there needs to be government regulation of computers to address the
> threat to our nation from insecure computers?
We *do* have a problem with insecure computers.
Alas, switching everyone over to Linux won't help. SELinux would help,
maybe, but training everyone would be prohibitive -- and if we don't
get developers playing fair, we're doomed in the long run anyway.
As I see it, we're being herded into a TCB future where we aren't the
owners of the machines, and certainly aren't the policy-makers for
those ("our") machines.
Keep those old machines working!
> 1984 is becoming more real every day.
The Computer Is Your Friend, Citizen!
--
Never played Paranoia. I should fix that one day.
Stewart Stremler
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