[Opensim-users] Banning "bad" viewers was Re: Can this be done?

[Karen Palen]

Well no it wasn't, it was derived from a BBC documentary that I recently viewed on the subject and it seemed appropriate illustration of the usefulness of security precautions as well as weapons.

It was NOT intended as any form of name calling, much less comparisoms with the abuses of the Nazi regime.

Sadly I have often had to break open the security of computer systems that I worked on simply to do the job that I was hired to do by the system owner. What was particularly annoying was to be told (afterwards) that what I did was impossible since the system was "unbreakable"!

I only hope that the quality of systems administration has improved since then, but I often wonder if we have actually advanced.

Just the same this thread has probably exhausted its usefulness for the moment.

Karen

--- On Wed, 1/13/10, Kyle Hamilton <aerowolf at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Kyle Hamilton <aerowolf at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Banning "bad" viewers was Re: Can this be done?
> To: "opensim-users" <opensim-users at lists.berlios.de>
> Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 4:18 PM
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:45 PM,
> Karen Palen <karen_palen at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > The essential feature of any weapon is that it hurt
> the enemy more than it hurts you. Hitler's V-2 rocket is the
> only historical exception to that rule that I know of.
> 
> Was this an intentional Godwin's Law invocation?
> 
> -Kyle H
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