motivating security, was Re: Every incident...

Alexander Harrowell a.harrowell at gmail.com
Mon Feb 12 15:34:02 UTC 2007


d Lewis <Ed.Lewis at neustar.biz> wrote:
>
>
> I don't mean to say that the car owners or computer users are free
> from blame.  But holding a sentiment of just blaming users is not
> helpful.  OTOH, if there was something the operators could clearly do
> to stop this, someone would have suggested it by now.  (There are all
> them laws about snooping traffic, etc.)
>
> I thought I had a conclusion ... but I don't.


Sure. Demonising sufferers didn't stop the spread of AIDS, probably made it
worse (Saudi Arabia has one of the fastest growing HIV problems, they say).
But shouting at people to wear condoms/use a firewall has diminishing
returns. It's complicated.
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