>> The only thing I can think of is that IE7 and beyond stepped up security enough to make a major impact
Or maybe, just maybe, Norton/McAfee is actually doing something usefull?
I live in St Louis and can say that I have DSL and a dish, but cannot get cable. They won't run a wire down my road.
Up until about 3 years ago I couldn't even get DSL, I paid for a dedicated dialup.
So there are still places in some largish cities without a full set of options.
Not sure I only want laws where how easily broken is the basis.
Speeding, how many cars won't go faster then the speed limit? How about the speed limit in front of your house, it is easy to spped there so should we change the law to make it legal to go as fast as my car will go?
Breaking into a house, pretty easy to go in and take anything you want. Let's make that legal too.
Murder, how hard is it to buy a gun and kill someone? Most places you may only have a short waiting period to get the gun, and pulling the trigger is easy. Since this is so easy to do should we make it legal?
Where are we drawing the line on how easy something is to do and making it legal?
>> Actually, since one can safely assume that there are far more good people out there than bad
What internet do you use? That sure isn't true of the one that I use.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.