I heard a guy from accenture talk about things like this and how it is possible with.net. He said if you want the convinence of companies to do things for you then you will have to give out information. You arent forced to give out that information if you do not want. There are options with everything. If buying some product requires you to give out your info then dont buy it and loose the convinence that it gives or use a competitive product which doesnt require your info.
What you are not look at is this. This person had the same chance to make good security decisions with Microsoft and HE DIDN'T. Thats the point. Taxpayers should have to spend money on something that Microsoft should be paying for. It is their responsibility to make their product secure, why should tax payers pay for that?
If I think that buying a website with certain characters will limit the people accessing my servers to only those that have special software then I would not buy that domain. I am sure there are a lot of others like me.
I saw an interview on tv with the co-creator of the comic. In that interview the interviewer made a good point. MIT was in a competition funded by the US government with other universites throughout the US. They did not win just for the picture, there were other things that the judges liked about MIT's proposal that they chost MIT as the winner. No one ever looks at the drawings that other universities submitted. Perhaps they looked very similar also. You just never hear of them becaues they did not win.
It would be interesting to know what the systems were running. The article mentiones "there is grave concern over the ease with which the hackers entered the computer systems" but doesnt go into much detail. These stories should have details so people can protect other systems.
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Most of the spam comes from countries where that law cannot/wouldnot reach.
I heard a guy from accenture talk about things like this and how it is possible with .net. He said if you want the convinence of companies to do things for you then you will have to give out information. You arent forced to give out that information if you do not want. There are options with everything. If buying some product requires you to give out your info then dont buy it and loose the convinence that it gives or use a competitive product which doesnt require your info.
We will have to go back to doing things the way things were before the phone.
What you are not look at is this. This person had the same chance to make good security decisions with Microsoft and HE DIDN'T. Thats the point. Taxpayers should have to spend money on something that Microsoft should be paying for. It is their responsibility to make their product secure, why should tax payers pay for that?
If I think that buying a website with certain characters will limit the people accessing my servers to only those that have special software then I would not buy that domain. I am sure there are a lot of others like me.
I saw an interview on tv with the co-creator of the comic. In that interview the interviewer made a good point. MIT was in a competition funded by the US government with other universites throughout the US. They did not win just for the picture, there were other things that the judges liked about MIT's proposal that they chost MIT as the winner. No one ever looks at the drawings that other universities submitted. Perhaps they looked very similar also. You just never hear of them becaues they did not win.
It would be interesting to know what the systems were running. The article mentiones "there is grave concern over the ease with which the hackers entered the computer systems" but doesnt go into much detail. These stories should have details so people can protect other systems.