From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] useful language extension, or no? Message-ID: <20020719062204.U14964@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from David Gordon Hogan on Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:24:33PM -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 06:22:04 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d1c7f0d4-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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