On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:05:41PM -0700, Allen Brown wrote: > > >I almost have a > > >hard time holding any attackers responsible for this kind of thing. That > > >would be like painting your IP address and root passwd on a billboard > > >along I-5. > > > > > Just because you lose the key to your house, with the address tag > > attached, does not give anyone the right to enter your house without > > your permission. > > > > How is this different? > > It really isn't different. > Attaching your address to your keys is just as stupid. > I'm sick of the American trend of always blaming someone else > for one's own stupidity.
Actually it is different, to some degree. It's unlikely that anyone would be so stupid as to put their address on their house key, but that would be quite foolish. Consider instead a woman who has had her purse stolen. In it is a checkbook (address, financial status), keys, credit cards, etc. If she reacts instantly, then she is very unfortunate. If instead she decides to wait two weeks to see if someone returns her purse, and finds that someone has been using her credit cards, her house is burglurized, and that her identity has been stolen, then indeed she took steps (or non-steps) to allow these things to happen. Some major religions would say that everything beyond the initial theft is as much her responsibility as it is the thief's because she chose to do nothing. I think rationality tends to agree, though humans are rarely rational. The reason why I can't have much sympathy for the bank is that they could know, should know, and indeed by now do know that an ATM running Windows is asking for trouble. If you ask for trouble, You Will Find It. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
