Security v. Privacy (was Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?)

Sun Oct 5 22:29:46 UTC 2003

Sean Donelan [05/10/03 17:44 -0400]:
> What happens a few hours later when you start getting complaints again
> about the same customer?  Do you turn the connection off again.  And

Sure, turn it off again.  And again.

Sooner or later, it will dawn on the customer that no, his system is not
fixed.  And in the meantime, both his bandwidth quota (if any) and the ISP's
pipes avoid getting saturated with worms.

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