A while ago, I did a rough calculation that made me state that 15-30% of all machines are no longer under the sole control of their owner. In the intervening months, I got some hate mail on this, but in those same intervening months Vint Cerf said 40%, Microsoft said 2/3rds, and IDC said 3/4ths.
Whatever it is, it is >> 0. And, of course, definitions matter. I don't think that 0wned is a binary variable any more; there are degrees of 0wned-ness with a wide range between the optimist ("I replaced` the only program that was trojaned") to the pessimist ("Any compromise of any sub-component makes the entire edifice untrustable"). --dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]