[lug] market power -> vulnerability ?

[George Sexton]

> Maybe M$ being a monopoly makes it a irresistable target,
> but Fort Knox is also an irresistable target, and there
> is no record of a pre-teen kid breaking into it.

The fallacy here is obvious. If the required tools to break into Fort
Knox were readily available to pre-teen kids (and they had
transportation to Tennessee) they would.

George Sexton
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-----Original Message-----
From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]
On Behalf Of David Owen Kritzberg
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 2:07 PM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: [lug] market power -> vulnerability ?


> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:50:44AM -0700, bill ehlert wrote:
> > about os's  --  whether they be windows,
> > linux, mac os, bsd, whatever:
> > 
> > that whenever there's one with an
> > almost-monopoly position, there's
> > an almost-irresistable target for
> > crackers.
>
> Maybe M$ being a monopoly makes it a irresistable target,
> but Fort Knox is also an irresistable target, and there
> is no record of a pre-teen kid breaking into it.
> 
> No, the real problem is bad design, and bad information
> for users on how to protect themselves. It like selling
> safe deposit vaults that have no lock, and in irremoveable
> sign announcing "Open".
> 
> -- 
> Paul E Condon           
> pecondon at peakpeak.com    
> 
I'm on your side but I think your metaphor is a bad one.  Unless
you're just demagoguein'...

Dave


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