Re: How to prevent malware from running on your PC

From: Wim de Vries (kikker_at_sneeuwenleeuw.con.invalid)
Date: 09/19/05 

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 06:23:17 -0700

On 19 Sep 2005 11:42:46 +0200, Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org> wrote:

>Wim de Vries <kikker@sneeuwenleeuw.con.invalid> wrote:
>> http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/
>> > #4) Hacking is Cool
>> >One of the best ways to get rid of cockroaches in your kitchen is to
>> >scatter bread-crumbs under the stove, right? Wrong! That's a dumb idea.
>
>I don't agree with that:
>
>http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
>http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/cracker.html

Quibbling over terminology. That's a lost cause anyway to resist the
evolution of a living language. Today, for most, hacker == cracker. It
may be wrong in the historical sense but it is correct now for the
majority.

>> I don't think you would disagree with the other points in the article.
>
>I don't know yet ;-) This does not sound like an artikle I want to read.

No one likes reading articles that contradict their viewpoint.

You have no desire to refute the points the article makes?