When you offshore, they still keep the whole big office on the other side of the world, you still have slaves and slave drivers in the same place.
If you telecommute, you get one slave with his tv, bed and fridge close by (or nagging significant other and bunch of kids running around) and no one to kick him around when he gets lazy.
This myth was dispelled long ago, one example is gorilla warfare. Europeans thought it cowardly to hide from your opponents instead of facing them openly on a field of battle. It wasn't cowardly, it was tactically sound.
Well, not the same principle. In his analogy publishing the information tells everyone that you're a tool.
In mine it makes the exploit of your toolnes public knowledge.
The point of the case is not just that those guys pointed to an unfixed security hole, but that they were about to publish a way to abuse that security hole.
Note that I'm not getting into rights and wrongs here.:)
Does a mechanic cause $5000 worth of damage when he points out that your axle is broken and needs replacement?
Well, how about if your car had a very bad and insecure locking and starting mechanism, and your mechanic told all your neighbours how to get in and start your car?
Don't get me wrong, I think the gag order was probably stupid - I don't know the whole whole story...
The experiment is called S.P.A.M., not S.P.A.Y.
Spammed Persistently All Month (not year).
So you get a free computer for around 30 hours of work. Not too bad. RTFA.
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When you offshore, they still keep the whole big office on the other side of the world, you still have slaves and slave drivers in the same place.
If you telecommute, you get one slave with his tv, bed and fridge close by (or nagging significant other and bunch of kids running around) and no one to kick him around when he gets lazy.
This myth was dispelled long ago, one example is gorilla warfare. Europeans thought it cowardly to hide from your opponents instead of facing them openly on a field of battle. It wasn't cowardly, it was tactically sound.
Me still thinks those gorillas was darn cowards.
Well, not the same principle. In his analogy publishing the information tells everyone that you're a tool.
:)
In mine it makes the exploit of your toolnes public knowledge.
The point of the case is not just that those guys pointed to an unfixed security hole, but that they were about to publish a way to abuse that security hole.
Note that I'm not getting into rights and wrongs here.
Does a mechanic cause $5000 worth of damage when he points out that your axle is broken and needs replacement?
Well, how about if your car had a very bad and insecure locking and starting mechanism, and your mechanic told all your neighbours how to get in and start your car?
:/
Don't get me wrong, I think the gag order was probably stupid - I don't know the whole whole story...
But I do think your analogy is somewhat flawed.
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The experiment is called S.P.A.M., not S.P.A.Y. Spammed Persistently All Month (not year). So you get a free computer for around 30 hours of work. Not too bad. RTFA.