[80426] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sun May 1 12:13:49 2005
Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 12:10:13 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <F0E0E3FA99211B55CA2EC9AE@imac-en0.delong.sj.ca.us>; from Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> on Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 12:56:00PM -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 12:56:00PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Not only do I not know this, I find it to be patently false. Yes, I think
> a high percentage of users is too ignorant to know what they need or how
> to get it. However, protecting them from that ignorance only propogates
> and perpetuates it. Pain is one of natures most effective educators.
Fine.
But the pain doesn't *hurt* the people who cause it.
See also: Tragedy of the Commons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_Commons if you didn't have
a better explanation handy.
Cheers,
-- jra
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