On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:26:09 EST, Richard Forno said: > In my last post when I said this: > > If something's deemed 'critical' to a large segment of the population, then > > security must NEVER outweigh conveinience. Period. Non-negotiable. > I meant to say that security must ALWAYS outweigh convienience. > > My goof....guess I had too much NOG and not enough NAN at the party last > night. :)
A case could be made that you had it right the first time, in that a "large segment" of the population cares less about security than they do about dancing hamsters, and that they'd designate the latter as "critical". Thus the sorry state of certain end-user software on 90% of the desktops. Happy Holidays! ;)
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