[73163] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Pasker)
Sun Aug 15 16:33:56 2004
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 15:33:13 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Jerry Pasker <jerry@jerry.org>
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>
>Bad hardware and application software cause a lot more problems than
>the operating system itself.
>
>--
>Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
Bad users cause more problems than everything else combined. Doesn't
matter if you're running windows, bsd, linux, OS X, or whatever. When
a dumb user does a dumb thing, dumb things happen.
Doesn't matter really, if it's an OS that gets asked to run malware,
and then is blamed for corrupting itself, or an SUV who's airbags and
crumple zones fail to keep the driver alive that was spacing off and
talking on a cell phone when they crossed in front of a semi. The
end result is the same: Technology, and the intelligent individuals
that create it can only do so much to prevent a stupid individual
from causing damage to themselves and others.
If anyone wants to argue against this, I beg of them to read
http://www.mentalsoup.com/mentalsoup/basic.htm
first.
-Jerry
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