On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 05:03:18PM +1200, James Spooner wrote:
This discussions really depends on how 'safe' a 'car' is.
Just for the record, the discussion was supposed to be "why don't ISPs promote mail clients to their customers which are not insecure by design".
This is how I perceive the Email Clients problem, people use their computers in a reckless manner, perhaps due to the exorbident(sp?) claims of the manufacturers 'safety' but mainly due to ignorance.
All people need to do in order to spread these worms is use the software they were provided with, in the manner in which it was intended to be use. Do you think it is reckless to keep e-mail addresses of people you know in an address book that is integrated with your mail client? Maybe it is reckless. How would any naive user know it was reckless? Using a virus checker to make an insecure mail client safe is an interesting approach. Kind of like keeping a fire extinguisher handy so you can gas up the car whilst smoking with no risk of getting burnt. Joe - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog