OT | We are a clear and present danger

OT | We are a clear and present danger
http://edu-observatory.org/olli/HCS/index.html


Every Winter -- I try to figure a better way to teach Home Computer
Security. This year I point out that:

WE ARE THE WEAKEST LINK
WE ARE A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER

I hope each of you can benefit from this offering.

On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 18:53:22 -0600, Sam Wormley
wrote:
OT | We are a clear and present danger
http://edu-observatory.org/olli/HCS/index.html

Every Winter -- I try to figure a better way to teach Home
Computer
Security. This year I point out that:

WE ARE THE WEAKEST LINK
WE ARE A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER

In particular, those of our fellow human being who attack us and who
write all that malware...

On Monday, 4 January 2016 02:47:05 UTC+1, Paul Schlyter wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 18:53:22 -0600, Sam Wormley
wrote:
OT | We are a clear and present danger
http://edu-observatory.org/olli/HCS/index.html

Every Winter -- I try to figure a better way to teach Home
Computer
Security. This year I point out that:

WE ARE THE WEAKEST LINK
WE ARE A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER

In particular, those of our fellow human being who attack us and who
write all that malware...

An interesting subject.

We are at the mercy of psychopaths [criminals] because Windows was allowed a global monopoly. Nature abhors a monopoly almost as much as it does a vacuum. A monopoly always stifles efficiency and crushes improvement as effortlessly as does communism or any other form of dictatorship.

While the great white killer shark pretends to be a global philanthropist the poor of this world constantly refill his money mines through local and government licensing for endless repairs to his broken office software. iRotten Apple was only tolerated because it posed no real threat to MS and gave the carefully manufactured illusion of real competition.

Meanwhile, back at the same ranch, Google was allowed a global monopoly with all the weaknesses that entails. If Google and MS had been born in any other country they would never have been allowed to evolve into such critically vulnerable, Achilles heels for the entire planet's online ecosystem. Can you even imagine any Russian or Chinese monopoly being allowed to survive on this scale outside of their own mono-politically corrupt cesspools?

On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 23:58:00 -0800 (PST), "Chris.B"
wrote:


We are at the mercy of psychopaths [criminals] because Windows was
allowed
a global monopoly.

.........

Meanwhile, back at the same ranch, Google was allowed a global
monopoly


FYI: two global monopolies cannot co-exist in the same business. So
make up your mind! Do you think Microsoft or Google have a global
monopoly in the IT business? And how do you explain the existence of
Apple, IBM, Oracle and others in that business?

On Sunday, 3 January 2016 19:53:25 UTC-5, Sam Wormley wrote:
OT | We are a clear and present danger
http://edu-observatory.org/olli/HCS/index.html


Every Winter -- I try to figure a better way to teach Home Computer
Security. This year I point out that:

WE ARE THE WEAKEST LINK
WE ARE A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER

I hope each of you can benefit from this offering.

Find 20 or so major hackers and online criminals, string them all up from streetlamps and leave their bodies to rot the way they did in the Middle Ages. That'll fix a lot of the hacking and crime problems.

On Monday, January 4, 2016 at 4:39:45 PM UTC-5, RichA wrote:
On Sunday, 3 January 2016 19:53:25 UTC-5, Sam Wormley wrote:
OT | We are a clear and present danger
http://edu-observatory.org/olli/HCS/index.html


Every Winter -- I try to figure a better way to teach Home Computer
Security. This year I point out that:

WE ARE THE WEAKEST LINK
WE ARE A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER

I hope each of you can benefit from this offering.

Find 20 or so major hackers and online criminals, string them all up from
streetlamps and leave their bodies to rot the way they did in the Middle Ages. That'll fix a lot of the hacking and crime problems.


Also include those nerds who, for some reason, think that littering other people's yards, mailboxes, cars and front doors with advertisements and promotional materials is perfectly OK.

Also those who drive rolling boomboxes.

On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 13:39:42 -0800 (PST), RichA
wrote:

Find 20 or so major hackers and online criminals, string them all up from streetlamps and leave their bodies to rot the way they did in the Middle Ages. That'll fix a lot of the hacking and crime problems.

And let's throw in Internet trolls and Christians, while we're at it.

On 1/5/2016 9:14 AM, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 13:39:42 -0800 (PST), RichA
wrote:

Find 20 or so major hackers and online criminals, string them all up from streetlamps and leave their bodies to rot the way they did in the Middle Ages. That'll fix a lot of the hacking and crime problems.

And let's throw in Internet trolls and Christians, while we're at it.

chuckle

you left out idiots for obvious reasons

no class at all chrissy pooh, none

On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 11:38:47 -0600, David Staup
wrote:

On 1/5/2016 9:14 AM, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 13:39:42 -0800 (PST), RichA
wrote:

Find 20 or so major hackers and online criminals, string them all up from streetlamps and leave their bodies to rot the way they did in the Middle Ages. That'll fix a lot of the hacking and crime problems.

And let's throw in Internet trolls and Christians, while we're at it.

chuckle

you left out idiots for obvious reasons

Sure, as long as we're discussing a Modest Proposal by someone with no
moral standards, lets string up the idiots, as well.

On Monday, January 4, 2016 at 2:39:45 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:

Find 20 or so major hackers and online criminals, string them all up from
streetlamps and leave their bodies to rot the way they did in the Middle Ages.
That'll fix a lot of the hacking and crime problems.

Unfortunately, the hackers are in Russia, or Belarus, and so on, and are good
friends with Putin. So deterrence is not an option, we need security.

John Savard