On Sat, 9 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Pinto, anyone? Explorer? Difference, of course, being that unsafe
> computers -- in the DDoS case which is our focus at the moment --
> tend to do their damage to third parties and not to the
> owners/operators.
Given the number of vehicles produced, the point still stands. Also, safe
to be on the road is much different than safe in full failure mode (Pinto
rear collisions for instance.) I'm not aware of a design flaw in the
Explorer. However, in vehicles there's manufacturer liability- and I'm
not so sure that's appropriate in software- certianly Open Source wouldn't
work well in that environment.
> [BTW, I don't think "eschew" is the right word here. "Aspire",
> perhaps?]
I think it's a little of both actually.
> On the other hand, China, which makes a lot of noise about
> agressively content-filtering all Internet traffic within/across
> their borders, can't seem to get email admins to block relaying on
> their machines....
> I *hope* you're right.
Yet they haven't decided to re-allocate IP address space to themselves.
I'm pretty sure it's not just possible, but probable such a scheme would
work.
Paul
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