RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Hackers defense: The computer did it

["Heivilin, Jim" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

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> Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Hackers defense: The computer did it
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> The true answer is smarter routers who analyze the traffic 
> and can decide what is strange or bad traffic and turn it off 
> automatically. 
> 
I don't disagree with the concept of smarter routers but I believe the
*true* answer lies in consumer education.  If we keep making things
easier and easier to use then the consumers aren't going to exercise
their "muscles" (in this case their minds, and there seem to be fewer
and fewer people who actually bother to *think* so I don't want to make
this worse) and their muscles are going to atrophy (even more).  

If we treat them like morons they're going to behave like morons and
eventually become morons (presuming we aren't to this stage already in
some places).  

Jim

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