WashingtonPost computer security stories

Sun Aug 15 20:33:13 UTC 2004

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>Bad hardware and application software cause a lot more problems than
>the operating system itself.
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>Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se

Bad users cause more problems than everything else combined.  Doesn't 
matter if you're running windows, bsd, linux, OS X, or whatever. When 
a dumb user does a dumb thing, dumb things happen.

Doesn't matter really, if it's an OS that gets asked to run malware, 
and then is blamed for corrupting itself, or an SUV who's airbags and 
crumple zones fail to keep the driver alive that was spacing off and 
talking on a cell phone when they crossed in front of a semi.  The 
end result is the same:  Technology, and the intelligent individuals 
that create it can only do so much to prevent a stupid individual 
from causing damage to themselves and others.

If anyone wants to argue against this, I beg of them to read

http://www.mentalsoup.com/mentalsoup/basic.htm

first.

-Jerry
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