[inbox] Re: [Full-Disclosure] CyberInsecurity: The cost of Mo nopoly

[Jim Lane]

Maybe it takes an "old mainframer" to point this out but it depends on what 
kind of functional unit you're talking about. I remember the days when, from 
the users point of view, the computer was a dumb terminal and all the 
intelligence (and security risk) was safely off in a locked room somewhere. We 
still had security problems back then but they were a lot easier to deal with. 
Yet another case where Bill Bates and his like have a lot to answer for. 
Remind me again why client/server was supposed to have been a good idea? Sigh.
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Jim Lane                    Question authority:
Sysadmin, CSLab               Amateurs built the Ark,
jimlane at cs.toronto.edu        Professionals built the Titanic
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> I think the point is that most people expect their cars to be operational
> and do NOT do the maintenance themselves... they DO outsource it to a
> mechanic.  The average user has A LOT less control over their car than their
> computer.  A car is basically a single function unit, point A to point B.
> Computers never have been nor ever will be that one dimensional.  At the
> most, I think we could hope for users who learn to know better than to try
> to do the 'maintenance' on their computers themselves.
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