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> This is very true. BTW: Dvorak (on PC Mag) is making a proposal that all > PCs be licensed: > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1224343,00.asp > > Personally, I think Dvorak is an idiot, but he makes a good case for it. Haha... SANS GIAC Certification for everyone. I am all for it ;-) (see signature) On the other hand: I think a lot of the time, the problem is that us 'geeks' set the standard how computers are build. Lets face it. For most people: "Internet" = "Web". E.g. the recent discussion about Microsoft enabling 'auto update' by default and ISPs filtering ports. IMHO, if you don't know how to turn off auto-update, its probably a good idea that it is turned on ;-) While I have complained in the past at times about ISPs filtering ports, I have switched my opinion on that as well. If you know what you are doing, get a business account or colocate a machine. But once you are talking about ports like 135, 139, 445... there is no good reason to route this traffic at all. Anyway. I am getting into rants here. I recently heard Marcus Ranum blame the basic concept of "general purpose computing" for a lot of the security issues. And the more I think about it, the more I have to agree. -- SANS - Internet Storm Center http://isc.sans.org PGP Key: http://isc.sans.org/jullrich.txt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20030820/2fa7d17e/attachment.sig>
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