[67348] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dumb users spread viruses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Sun Feb 8 19:48:31 2004
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 00:46:51 +0000
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <nanog@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <000001c3eea4$2c9cd9f0$0200000a@pleth0ra>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In article <000001c3eea4$2c9cd9f0$0200000a@pleth0ra>, Terry Baranski
<tbaranski@mail.com> writes
>Society as a whole could benefit from people taking more responsibility
>for themselves -- the Internet doesn't seem any different in this
>regard.
Which is fine (some would argue) as long as their irresponsibility
affects only them, and not the rest of society.
As for this business of "opening" (aka executing etc) files which users
have been sent. One useful first line of defence would be for client
software to insist that the name of the sender be typed into a box, as
some kind of confirmation that the sender was known to the user.
--
Roland Perry
