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Re: [News] Use Linux for the Sake of the Children

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Ian <RocketLinuxNOJUNK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Mark Kent wrote:
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>> Ian Semmel <isemmelNOJUNK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> Pervy hacker gets ten years 
>>>>
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>>>> | Thirty-six year-old Adrian Ringland of Ilkeston in Derbyshire pleaded
>>>> | guilty to forcing schoolgirls to send him explicit pictures after
>>>> | having infected their computers with a Trojan horse. The man posed
>>>> | as a teen in chatrooms and gained the trust of the girls, before
>>>> | planting malicious software onto their PCs. He masked the Trojan
>>>> | as a picture of himself, but once opened, he had full access to
>>>> | their computers and used the Trojan to blackmail the teens into
>>>> | sending explicit pictures.
>>>> | 
>>>> | [...]
>>>> | 
>>>> | Security folks over at Sophos are warning that it's only a matter
>>>> | of time before this happens again - "These children will not be the
>>>> | last to be abused via the internet using spyware," senior
>>>> | technology consultant for Sophos Graham Cluley said.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35666
>>> The subject line of this post has nothing to do with the link.
>> 
>> I rather think that it has.  Had it not been for Microsoft Windows'
>> dreadful security, the aforementioned unpleasant character would not
>> have been able to get away with his blackmail trick.  Thus, looking
>> after our children can better be achieved by not giving them Windows
>> PCs, where the security hazards in Windows can be exploited in such a
>> way as to put the safety of our children at risk.
>> 
>>> Perhaps it should read "Roy Schestowitz sinks to new lows in his mindless 
>>> anti-windows obsession"
>> 
>> I think he's just trying to look after our kids, whereas I think you're
>> more interested in the profits of specific organisations, and that you
>> really couldn't care less about the safety of our children.
>> 
> Did you read the article ?

I think he's just trying to look after our kids, whereas I think you're
more interested in the profits of specific organisations, and that you
really couldn't care less about the safety of our children, rather, you
prefer to have a poke at Roy S.

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| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
		-- Miguel de Cervantes

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