Alex, On Saturday 26 February 2005 13:20, Alex Daniloff wrote:
On Saturday 26 February 2005 10:47 am, Randall R Schulz wrote: <snipped>
Yeah, and when the Swiss-cheese-like security of their XP box causes them to lose their family photo album, their kids' homework, or worse, their credit card numbers and / or allows their PC to become part of some black-hat's unholy digital army of the night, they and / or we pay the price.
It's entirely up to you how secure you want to be.
This is false. When millions of unsecured systems are connected to the Internet through high-speed, always-on network connections, we are all put at risk. When mail servers across the globe are choked with a worm or when a Web site you need to use is the target of a DDOS attack made possible by the lax security of these systems, it is clear we've gone beyond the realm of personal choices.
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Alex
Randall Schulz