> On Feb 2, 2015, at 5:10 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> should a software
> vendor make their code stop working for you because they think you
> aren't working hard enough?
When the consequence of widespread bad security is botnets and all the ills
that derive therefrom — DDoS armies, spam, etc. — then yes, I think we do need
to raise the industry’s overall level of security.
At risk of bringing out some *actual* Internet nutters, the question of minimum
password security levels is directly analogous to that of vaccination. When a
large population stops vaccinating, we start seeing previously-defeated
diseases coming back, like the measles outbreaks in California and rural
Australia:
http://goo.gl/7caiui
http://goo.gl/8lT8Pd
Polio was almost completely eradicated, but it’s starting to come back in the
middle east after the CIA used a fake vaccination campaign as a pretext to try
to get into bin Laden’s Pakistan compound:
http://goo.gl/KbbMUC
http://goo.gl/C2B5EE
I believe personal freedom should count quite highly in policy discussions.
But, when your failure to protect yourself endangers me, it stops being a
question of personal freedom.
Practice safe hex!
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