Re: [SAGE] viruses, spam

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+sage@snew.com>]

Quoting Brad Knowles (brad.knowles@skynet.be):
> At 9:03 PM -0800 2004/01/21, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
...
> unable to use something more suitable, and they were unwilling or 
> incapable of using the filtering tools provided to them by the 
> vendor, so instead they bitched and bitched until I got tired of it 
> all.


Well, we've seen all this about "Cyber attacks" and a starting
awareness of the importance of the Internet and a (finally) growing
awareness of the truism which I first heard in public from Cheswick
about the Internet becoming like having state after state planted
with exactly the same strain of wheat - just waiting for weevils...
(all this despite the "cover our ears" actions like firing CTOs
for daring voice this).


We at Usenix could take leadership and start to identify the things
that could enstrengthen* this "Axis of Weevil" - in cyber terms...


Perhaps we should instead pass out buttons at LISA/Usenix events:
"If you use Outlook and IE, you're contributing to Terrorism."


chuck


*I'm enstriving to speak like the Resident of the United States.