Re: Microsoft finally acknowledges the security drumbeats

From: Roger Marquis (not-for-mail@roble.com)
Date: 02/11/02 

From: Roger Marquis <not-for-mail@roble.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:55:33 GMT

In comp.security.unix Alun Jones <alun@texis.com> wrote:
>In article <QyC98.18837$TI3.179329@typhoon.sonic.net>, Roger Marquis
><not-for-mail@roble.com> wrote:
>>Maybe an analogy will help: Does your mortgage or lease grant the bank
>>or landlord the right to access your property, look in your rooms, even
>>open your drawers and cabinets "at will"?
>
>Does it help if I note that the local city council can nay-say any alterations
>I care to make to my house, they can inspect them for safety, and in some

Can the city walk in to your house to do inspections at any time
without your permission? Can they remove and replace alterations that
don't meet code? If not your analogy is flawed.

>Analogies such as this are somewhat useless.

Inaccurate analogies to city planning are indeed useless. If
microsoft-everywhere proponents want to believe black is white and
white is black that's their right. Intelligent readers see right
through it.

I suppose it will never cease to amaze me how easily some people will
give up the right to control their own computer. Then again we've
heard many reports of microsoft paying people to write letters, even
taking names from the obituaries
<URL:http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO63256,00.html>.
I'm not saying that's the case here but it certainly would explain a
lot. 

-- 
Roger Marquis
Roble Systems Consulting
http://www.roble.com/

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