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Re: Security v. Privacy (was Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sun Oct 5 22:51:39 2003

To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
Cc: Matthew Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net>,
	Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Oct 2003 02:43:48 -0000."
             <20031006024348.GB6169@outblaze.com> 
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 22:50:58 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


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On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 02:43:48 -0000, Suresh Ramasubramanian said:
> 
> Matthew Sullivan [06/10/03 11:38 +1000]:
> > Third time their account is deleted.
> > 
> > I am yet to have one that has reached the third time - 85k users here.
> 
> Let me guess - that'd mostly be dialup users, right?  Or maybe simply email
> users?  Not (say) T1 and larger users? 

If it is mostly dialup users, it's all the more remarkable, as "conventional
wisdom" has home users as being even less security-clued than the SOHO crowd or
corporate sites...


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