In article <1362808.7N2DzBnBsJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
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> >>
> >> Hm. How do we tell when a series of packets comes from a Windows
> >> machine?
> >>
> >> An interesting idea, but there are a number of things that
> >> might get in the way -- especially proxies. :-) Still,
> >> it might cut the worst of the crap out.
> >>
> >> --
> >> #191, ewill3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Linux. An OS which actually, unlike certain other offerings, works.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > It can sound a little strange, but it is a great idea, and may be
> > required to save the internet from absolutely massive infestation.
> >
> > The details would be handled by you geniuses who understand it all. I'm
> > an idiot comapared to what some of you know.
> >
> > It's the idea -- QUARANTINE Windows Now.
> >
> > And it's not some unreasonable attack on win by anti-win zealots at all.
> > It's a practical needed restriction to salvage the web and other zones
> > from severely insecure code.
>
> What would security companies do for a living? What would be the purpose of
> SPAM filters? You lay off an entire industry by offering a Web that's *gasp*
> free of cybercrime and zombies. An equilibrium is broken here as, quite
> frankly, many people (even on the support hotlines) depend on broken and
> insecure software.
Would be dramatic, but they would code something else.
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