On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 03:58:36PM +1200, Arjen De Landgraaf wrote:

Hi Joe,

We could state that in our advisories, However, wouldn't it be on the same line as:

Avoid car accidents, disable all petrol and diesel?

No; I think it would be more along the lines of "do not drive vehicles which are unsafe". LOL or could we also say "do not do those drugs as they are unsafe" The reality is that Microsoft and all its products are a very large part of the global business world right now. Just as unsafe cars. We can make them somewhat safer by awareness and vigilance, just as driving a car.

Not quite. We reduce the problem of unsafe cars by passing laws which seek to enforce minimum standards for cars. If nobody took any steps to get unsafe cars off the road, more people would die.

The same could be said of the Internet, as more and more countries pass legislation on what is and isn't acceptable use of this medium. If nobody took any steps to pass and police these laws then more software vulnerabilities would be discovered and exposed by, what can arguably be explained as the biggest pain in our collective IT butt, Hackers, or did I mean developers that move from the standard to claim their own.

If the most popular car on the road had a defect which routinely caused people to die, I don't think people would say "the reality is that the car in question has a large market share, so it's really not practical to encourage people not to drive it."

Fix the defect and do a recall on the car in question, it is not a question of practicality more one of morality, and we all know that practicality and morality are clouded when it comes to the bottom line. Darryl Joe - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog