* Posts by chris

2 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Sep 2007

Microsoft-loving (former) security czar calls for closed internet

chris

Reality check

Unfortunatly, in most of our current law situations, is that: Most people break the law every day. It not that their criminals, its that we ( I can only represent my limited english speaking american experience) have a society that has one set of rules on paper, and another out in the hall with hand shakes and pats on the back. Our corp and legislative leaders alike. And until we elimate government corruption, and overly greedy execs. This Security standard will be a liability, not just so software companies; but to our digital freedom, as a whole.

So i propose an alternative to the survilance/security culture: Personal responsibility, and lets face it its been a while since we've seen it, old fashioned police work!

ISPs turn blind eye to million-machine malware monster

chris

personal responsibility

I have a hard time with putting this on the Isp's; I pay for a pipe, not a security service. If you computer is part of this criminal 'Bot-net', then call your Security provider, such as norton, McAfee, AVG ect.

We as a society Need to be more tech savy, our survival depends on it. And I for one, don't think that it is some one elses job to do it for me, and if it becomes some elses job they need to get Paid for it.

As for the 'one of the worlds largest supercomputers, not owned by a large corpation or government part, why not, in america we have the right to bear arms, here we have a weapon, not really owned by any one, propogated by our collective computer ignorance.

If you really want to stop the bot nets/graywhere, educate Gramma, not point fingers.