Clean Needles for Hackers

scubacuda writes "Jon Lasser of the Register opines that we should "give up on the notion that computer security can be improved by putting more people in prison." He argues that a "harm reduction" approach (similar to that of "clean needle" campaign in the War on Drugs) might be more productive. If we, say, wrote in safer programming languages, used tools like Immunix's StackGuard, ProPolice, or OpenBSD 3.3, chroot and UML, we could reduce the damage a malicious hacker might do without damaging our civil liberities."

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The REAL way to hamper hackers

[pair-a-noyd]

is to outlaw M$ products.
Winbloz is an insecure product. It's broken out of the box and can not be repaired. This is documented fact.