...but the people that read slashdot already know that this shit shouldn't be on our PCs. The people that don't read here are the ones I believe the author was concerned about. We should concentrate more on convincing end users they should be concerned with what is on their PCs. Its hard to convince my girlfriend not to install mp3 sharing programs because they have backdoors...but she wants her mp3s. Leads me getting them for her if I don't want it on her machine.
However, I had no idea what it was like outside of MN/ND. From my experieces, its always self install or PAY EXTRA to have the tech come out and do it. I've had both Cable and DSL, neither of which required software. I never thought some ISPs would force the tech into my living space.
I used to think it was funny to go to Best Buy and argue why Macs or machines running linux were superior to the windoze machines they were selling. After about 2 sentences they left and the employees learned to avoid me. They didn't care, they just wanted commission on their PCs and found they had no valid arguement to convince me their cheap ass e-machine was ever going home with me. Just like the cable installer....he doesn't care, he just knows as much as he has to and possibly what he wants too.
Another little bit of advice....Run portsentry in your flavor of unix/linux. Its made my firewalling so easy. I just add a few machines I know I don't want to IPtables and portsentry will do the rest.
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...but the people that read slashdot already know that this shit shouldn't be on our PCs. The people that don't read here are the ones I believe the author was concerned about. We should concentrate more on convincing end users they should be concerned with what is on their PCs. Its hard to convince my girlfriend not to install mp3 sharing programs because they have backdoors...but she wants her mp3s. Leads me getting them for her if I don't want it on her machine.
However, I had no idea what it was like outside of MN/ND. From my experieces, its always self install or PAY EXTRA to have the tech come out and do it. I've had both Cable and DSL, neither of which required software. I never thought some ISPs would force the tech into my living space.
I used to think it was funny to go to Best Buy and argue why Macs or machines running linux were superior to the windoze machines they were selling. After about 2 sentences they left and the employees learned to avoid me. They didn't care, they just wanted commission on their PCs and found they had no valid arguement to convince me their cheap ass e-machine was ever going home with me. Just like the cable installer....he doesn't care, he just knows as much as he has to and possibly what he wants too.
Another little bit of advice....Run portsentry in your flavor of unix/linux. Its made my firewalling so easy. I just add a few machines I know I don't want to IPtables and portsentry will do the rest.