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Re: once more, with feeling.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicolas Williams)
Wed Sep 10 17:32:12 2008
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:42:19 -0500
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
To: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <48C803FC.7080205@gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:29:32PM -0400, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> I agree. I'm sure this is a world-wide problem, and head-in-the-sand
> cyber-libertarianism has long prevented better solutions. The "market"
> doesn't work for this, as there is a competitive *disadvantage* to
> providing improved security, and it's hard to quantify safety.
Or maybe there's a civil liability law issue that causes the market to
fail in this instance.
Nico
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