From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] useful language extension, or no?
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 06:22:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020719062204.U14964@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9ce7aa7437f92911a262ac89e1af57d@plan9.bell-labs.com>; from David Gordon Hogan on Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:24:33PM -0400
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:24:33PM -0400, David Gordon Hogan wrote:
>
> > That's where Microsoft's "security by obscurity" argument would
> > acquire validity, isn't it?
>
> I think they're banking on evolutionary pressure against smart
> people eventually wiping out all of the potential hackers.
Don't fool yourself. They're _applying_ social engineering techniques
to supplement any weakness in evolutionary pressure. Presenting
compelling arguments against publication of source and demonising
published source as contributing to terrorism is one way of producing
uneducated acolytes.
++L
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-18 19:24 David Gordon Hogan
2002-07-19 4:22 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
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2002-07-20 5:59 forsyth
2002-07-19 18:35 forsyth
2002-07-19 18:33 David Gordon Hogan
2002-07-19 18:22 David Gordon Hogan
2002-07-19 18:36 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-07-19 15:45 forsyth
2002-07-19 18:19 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-07-19 6:48 forsyth
2002-07-19 0:52 David Gordon Hogan
2002-07-19 12:53 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-07-19 15:41 ` Mike Haertel
2002-07-19 18:09 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-07-19 18:38 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-07-19 19:07 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-07-29 16:01 ` Ralph Corderoy
2002-07-18 15:02 forsyth
2002-07-18 23:57 ` arisawa
2002-07-29 15:59 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-07-18 12:54 Richard Miller
2002-07-17 13:36 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-16 17:31 presotto
2002-07-17 8:58 ` William Josephson
2002-07-17 8:58 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-07-16 17:01 forsyth
2002-07-17 8:59 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-07-16 16:50 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-16 15:59 ` Sam
2002-07-16 17:04 ` Howard Trickey
2002-07-16 16:20 ` Sam
2002-07-16 16:08 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-16 15:31 ` Sam
2002-07-16 15:53 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-16 15:05 ` Sam
2002-07-16 21:29 ` Steve Kilbane
2002-07-16 14:12 Sam
2002-07-16 16:30 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-07-17 12:49 ` Ian Broster
2002-07-17 12:12 ` Sam
2002-07-17 13:33 ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-17 16:12 ` Fariborz (Skip) Tavakkolian
2002-07-17 22:21 ` arisawa
2002-07-17 22:28 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-07-18 9:51 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-07-18 10:19 ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-18 10:28 ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-18 14:50 ` Mike Haertel
2002-07-18 14:56 ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-19 5:23 ` arisawa
2002-07-18 14:21 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-07-18 14:55 ` Lucio De Re
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