Re: NSA,Windows, etc.

From: David Wagner (daw_at_taverner.cs.berkeley.edu)
Date: 05/05/04 

Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 03:19:51 +0000 (UTC)

Roger Schlafly wrote:
>The Patriot Act actually increased my privacy, because it
>persuaded my local Santa Cruz library to stop keeping long-term
>records on my book-borrowing habits.

That's about like saying that the author of the Code Red worm increased
the security of my Windows machines, because he convinced my sysadmins to
spend more effort on computer security. While the worm may well have had
those side effects, authoring a worm is still a despicable thing to do,
no matter what beneficial secondary effects it might have had.