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Head in the sand, ass in the air.
'nuff said.
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>> I think most of us have been pre occupied with events of the last week.
>> Anyone with bright ideas on how we can use the ATA interface to fight
>> terrorism?
>
>Sure! Don't put features in your disk drives that store encrypted
>files in there that can't ever be copied or read back without a
>private key held by a third party.
>
>That third party could be a terrorist. That third party could be a
>record company. All I know is that I don't want anybody else
>controlling what's stored or accessible on my own disk drive.
>
> John
>
>PS: If your question was serious, here's my 2c. Fight "terrorists" by
>building better and better interfaces. Ignore these guys; there
>are only ten or twenty of them per billion humans, and they only
>killed a tiny fraction of the population. (In 1998, 30,575 US people
>died from suicide, 42,191 from unintentional motor vehicle accidents,
>and 724,859 from heart disease -- mourn THOSE people and work on THOSE
>issues if you want to make a *real* difference). See:
> http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr48/nvs48_11.pdf
>
>Most important, if you waste your time mooning about "terrorists"
>rather than contributing to society by doing what you're good at, they
>win a little bit. They're like the media and the politicians, they
>seek only your attention, and they'll waste as much of it as you give
>them. Deny it to them and they lose. You could spend your entire
>life "fighting terrorism" and never make a bit of difference, like all
>the guards loitering in airports and transit stations today, (They're
>highly symbolic and expensive, but in reality useless.) Turn off the
>TV and the yammering "crisis" radio, and get back to what really
>matters in life: family, friends, work, and pleasure. My 2c.
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