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All We Want Is Whatever's On Your Machine

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-fair-doesn't-it dept.

kubla2000 writes: "A breathless story about how the best defense against [fill in the blank: piracy, virii, hacking] is a good offense at CNet. What struck me most though is that in the midst of the rant from Timothy Mullen (no stranger to hacking the hack as this story from computerworld magazine shows, was a throw-away line justifying the RIAA and MPAA's appeal to Congress to make it legal to do this! It seems the bandwagons have started rolling. Who's next to jump on?"

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  1. Stupidity is not a very good argument by Talez · · Score: 0, Troll

    So according to your theory, Apache is unreliable and insecure because an exploit is found and therefore because of the installed base it will be vunerable for a very long time.

    And I can send you an ELF binary with a virus attached to it and say "I am Anna Kournikova, I'm naked, and I sent you this document to have your advice, so please log in as root so you can see it properly"

    Whats your point?