Carl Sagan, who died in 1996, is most usually associated with that statement.
I don't know if anyone else came up with that exact phrase before he did, but I suspect it to be so. Kurt On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 13:03, Paul Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > Or as I've often seen it put: "absence of evidence is not evidence of > absence.." - which I *think* came from CSI > > Paul G. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 05 November 2009 19:18 > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: NewSID retired - The Machine SID Duplication Myth > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't think that Mark was saying that the local machine SID doesn't >> matter ... > > Not in those words, but I can't see any other way to interpret > things. He said that there was no need to worry about it being > unique, and so NewSID is now retired, and the SID functionality is > slated to be removed from SYSPREP. > >> He is pretty much concluding that there are no known scenarios where the >> machine SID is needed outside of the machine, and thus no need for it to > be >> unique across machines. > > Indeed, and I think that's the problem a lot of people have. There > is a world of difference between "There is no known problem" and "It > is known there are no problems". > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.424 / Virus Database: 270.14.45/2476 - Release Date: 11/05/09 > 07:37:00 > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
