On Mon, 22 May 2000, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
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>
> That's why I said the line quoted above. I'm worried about the long-term
> social change that moving from a "report to domain contact" to "report
> *everything* to law enformcement" _could_ make. (especially since they
> seem to want "trap and trace" type cooperation from admins, and *most*
> non-dial-up things I've tracked back have turned into compromised
> machines/networks where the extra time has helped the compromised site
> immensely.)
>
> I'm all for chasing down bad people and holding them accountable for their
> actions, but it seems to me that there may be a concerted effort to start
> pushing too hard in the other direction.
>
> > Please pardon my cynicism, but ...
>
> My cynicism is why I posed the question. I'm worried that we're moving
> quickly from a self-policed community to a street with locked gates on
> each property, and that hinders our own efforts to help the less-clued as
> a community.
>
> Creating a class of clueless victims who wait for police clean-up after
> the fact is a bad real-life precident that I don't like the thought of.
>
WE might as well have let intel do the signature thingie on the pentiumIII
and then push other manufacturers into providing similiar capabilities
with their chips, eh?
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
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