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Old June 26th 04, 09:29 AM
Dylan Smith
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In article , C J Campbell wrote:
Still, there's a third alternative: safe computing.


Again, safe for whom? Apparently the high priests are concerned only for
their own safety, ie, jobs.


Safe for the general Internet-using public. Is it too much to ask that
operating systems designed for personal use on personal computers aren't
set up by default to be running a huge bunch of exploitable server
processes?

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