Reflections on Brilliant Digital: Single Points of 0wnership

nweaver writes "Some reflection on Brilliant Digital's plans shows that they have inadvertently created a Single Point of 0wnership: a single machine or small group of machines which, if succesfully attacked, can be used to gain effective control of the Internet. The implications are rather scary: Even if you never touched KaZaA, your systems may be affected if someone manages to attack Brilliant Digital's update service. Who needs a Warhol Worm?".Updated by HeUnique: use these instructions to remove the Brilliant part.

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Re:The post is a rant!

[chialea]

Um... nick's a grad student. he's not disgruntled. he's about to get his PhD, just finishing up the thesis. I'd also submit that dismissing people is not always a good idea, and dismissing all grad students is certainly not a good idea. I'm willing to bet a lot of money that there are some of em who are smarter than you are, at any rate, just as there are certainly some who are more intelligent than I.

Lea