[NTLUG:Discuss] What is love?

[Jeremy Blosser]

Mark Bainter [mark-ntlug at firinn.org] wrote:
> ....  Everyone is talking about how much the person who wrote it
> should be punished, but I think there are two other parties that need to
> accept culpability here too.  First, Microsoft for writing the tool and being
> so irresponsible when it comes to security.  Second, the people who used those
> products and who chose to click on a suspicious attachment.  In some cases a
> 3rd party of IT people who chose the software.  Look, if you leave your stereo
> system out on your front lawn, how much can you really complain when someone
> finally comes along and steals it?  Yes, it was still wrong for that person to
> steal it, but really!  

Heh.  More appropriately, if someone sends you a letter that says "Please
take your stereo outside and place it in the trunk of the car waiting
outside.  Thank you." and you actually do it, what basis do you have for
complaining that your stereo is now missing?  And in that case, *did* they
steal it?  They just gave you some things they'd like you to do, you
actually did them all, and without coercion.

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Jeremy Blosser   |   jblosser at firinn.org   |   http://jblosser.firinn.org/
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