On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Ned Fleming wrote: > On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:49:50 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > >> On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:14:48 PDT, Rob Thompson said: >> >>> this as sheer laziness and quite frankly it's rather pathetic. >>> Passing >>> the buck isn't okay. We count on the schools to raise our kids >>> and the >>> ISP to police the interwebs. Bullshit! >> >> It may come as a surprise to you - but a large number of people >> *do* count >> on the schools to do a large part of the educating and socializing >> of the young >> ones. There's an awful amount of stuff that kids learn in school >> that parents >> are *not* in a good position to teach - everything from Egyptian >> history to how >> to play well with others on a softball team. Might want to pick a >> better >> analogy - the days when we could all homeschool our kids are *long* >> gone, if >> they ever existed at all...) > > I think Rob has a point, though perhaps he didn't express it well. > > This ISP "knew" that web site X was selling fraudulent (brand?) > handbags. > > I wonder how they knew? Their level of knowledge is perhaps key. >
If the ISP is doing the "See no evil, hear no evil..." then I believe the term for that is "willful ignorance" ( beautiful phrase in an oxymoronic way). _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
