<quote name="Nicholas Leippe" date="Wed, 7 May 2008 at 15:27 -0600"> > I'm only trying to say, that once something is 'not secure', it can't get any > more 'not secure'. If something has some amount of security added, then there > are degrees of security at that point--but it's no longer essentially plain > text, shouted out for all the world to hear.
I dissagree, it's always a spectrum, you simply choose to treat a certain portion of the spectrum as one lump, but that doesn't change the fact that there is still a spectrum there. You say DVD CSS is "insecure, period". Well, I bet it stops some percentage of people from copying dvds onto their computers, and that percentage is proportional to the work, finding the software in this case. Anyways, I think the original comparison stating email as less secure than posting on a web page to be completely and helpfully appropriate. It's something for people to relate to. For most people email is just so mysterious and just works through some garfangled computer magic. People can relate to "information posted on the internet" if only because it's been pounded into their skulls that once it's there it can never be taken back. The comparison is then a real eye opener to a large number of people, and that makes it useful. Von Fugal -- Freedom is Popular http://www.ronpaul2008.com
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