Knowledgeable computer users don't suffer from email viruses...
Since we are relating things to biology, you could say this is survival of the fittest. People who are willing to change their bad habbits on the internet will 'survive'.
Friend, it ain't just laziness. Some of us have been urging and working on fundamental security advancements for decades now. But there's a huge *regulatory* problem, preventing fundamental data authentication and encryption in the US, and it's been crippling developers for years. Yes, it's unconstitutional, but the last time it got slapped down it got moved from Customs to Commerce, where it is now a looming brick over the head of every security developer.
That brick helps prevent *funding* or release of n
no security built into TCP/IP because there was no need for them. TCP/IP was not developed for academics, it's development was paid for by the Department of Defense, thus security was a consideration in the design of TCP/IP from day one. That is why TCP/IP was designed to dynamically reconfigure routing to work around failures, as opposed to SNA, in which the network was statically configured.
I'll be interested in knowing how you propose to fix user laziness.
I think you're right about DRM though. Microsoft's financial future depends on it. This is why they're promising so much about security, yet doing nothing about it. I doubt they deliberately leaked the source code, but I bet they didn't worry overly when they started relaxing their restrictions on who could see it.
1. Both Unix and Linux came out of unstressed environments.
2. The PC market has led to hysterical commercialism.
Today we see a planned obsolescence that even the US automotive industry would be ashamed of. As Mark Minasi found when interviewing marketing suits for his book 'The Software Conspiracy', the suits know about security and bugs, but they deliberately prioritise them down.
They need to get to market instead.
Unix had its exploits in the beginning. It was dead easy to ins
Maybe you can't buy happiness, but these days you can certainly charge it.
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Re:Not monoculture, just laziness... (Score:2, Interesting)
Since we are relating things to biology, you could say this is survival of the fittest. People who are willing to change their bad habbits on the internet will 'survive'.
Re:Not monoculture, just laziness... (Score:3, Insightful)
That brick helps prevent *funding* or release of n
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No security?!? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Not monoculture, just laziness... (Score:1)
I think you're right about DRM though. Microsoft's financial future depends on it. This is why they're promising so much about security, yet doing nothing about it. I doubt they deliberately leaked the source code, but I bet they didn't worry overly when they started relaxing their restrictions on who could see it.
We need a counter campaign - any ideas?
Re:Not monoculture, just laziness... (Score:3, Insightful)
1. Both Unix and Linux came out of unstressed environments.
2. The PC market has led to hysterical commercialism.
Today we see a planned obsolescence that even the US automotive industry would be ashamed of. As Mark Minasi found when interviewing marketing suits for his book 'The Software Conspiracy', the suits know about security and bugs, but they deliberately prioritise them down.
They need to get to market instead.
Unix had its exploits in the beginning. It was dead easy to ins