of hosts on the global Internet will be enough to make this a problem forever. It would be a small minority of a huge and growing population.
Bad software is part of the problem, the other part of the problem is the global Internet. Most of the world is a dangerous and lawless place and the Internet reflects this.
I have no easy answer. Everything that occurs to me has some sort of major drawback to it. Maybe the world isn't ready for a global Internet just yet.
away is if the vast majority of users switch to more secure software and only a tiny minority hold out. How are you going to make that happen? All we can do is secure our own machines and that's just not enough.
groupware, VOIP and file sharing applications and they'll do it over HTTP on port 80 if they have to. And these applications will have security holes. In the long run all you've done is force crackers to switch from crude port scanning to something very slightly more sophisticated.
I started with 1.0, then upgraded to 1.2.2. The thing often hangs when fetching email. I get "the email component has unexpectly quit" a lot.
Also it takes a very long time to load and the status bar says it's reading in all my stored mailboxes before I've even thought of opening one. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I have a bias against mass email. Partly it's the spam problem and partly because it's a push technology. I prefer online bulletin boards to mailing lists. But I have to admit I haven't got the hang of marketing. Maybe it works for the people who send the email. Maybe that's the root of the problem.
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of hosts on the global Internet will be enough to make this a problem forever. It would be a small minority of a huge and growing population.
Bad software is part of the problem, the other part of the problem is the global Internet. Most of the world is a dangerous and lawless place and the Internet reflects this.
I have no easy answer. Everything that occurs to me has some sort of major drawback to it. Maybe the world isn't ready for a global Internet just yet.
away is if the vast majority of users switch to more secure software and only a tiny minority hold out. How are you going to make that happen? All we can do is secure our own machines and that's just not enough.
groupware, VOIP and file sharing applications and they'll do it over HTTP on port 80 if they have to. And these applications will have security holes. In the long run all you've done is force crackers to switch from crude port scanning to something very slightly more sophisticated.
I started with 1.0, then upgraded to 1.2.2. The thing often hangs when fetching email. I get "the email component has unexpectly quit" a lot. Also it takes a very long time to load and the status bar says it's reading in all my stored mailboxes before I've even thought of opening one. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I have a bias against mass email. Partly it's the spam problem and partly because it's a push technology. I prefer online bulletin boards to mailing lists. But I have to admit I haven't got the hang of marketing. Maybe it works for the people who send the email. Maybe that's the root of the problem.
overseas. I just throw out everything from entire IP address ranges in parts of the world where I don't know anybody.