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From: purdy at tecman.com (Curt Purdy)
Subject: [inbox] Re: Fwd: Re: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source

FWIW I disagree with any moderation at all.  If I have to put up with all of
the stupid fat on here to get the meat that does come, I can take care of
myself with executables.  If someone is afraid of getting hacked, they have
no business on this list.  The only downside I see is network bandwidth
usage, and if Micro$oft would kindly go out of business, program size would
again become manageable.

The point is, this is a FREE forum, one of the few left in the world.  That
was the original concept of the Net and we must all work hard to protect
that freedom, whether from governments or from crackers.  That's my .02 of
bandwidth usage.

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer
DP Solutions

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If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked.
What's more, you deserve to be hacked.
-- former White House cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke

On 19 Aug 2003, Russell Fulton wrote:

snip

> How about attachments invoke automatic moderation  (i.e. any messages
> with attachment get shunted to the moderator for approval).
>

This sounds like a decent workgap, if the moderators are going to wish to
invest the added resources.  Of course, it might be expanded if they are
willing to provide more resources <list members us all, being gluttons
here for 'services'>, and rather then decide to approve binaries, to post
it to a website themselves, thus not *offending* anyone silly enough to
execute them, and allowing readers to decide if grabbing it is of merit to
them.  This does make an argument about enabling idiots to do more stupid
things, but, then again, they are most likely already available to these
folks already...

Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity.  It
eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the
business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart
	***testing, only testing, and damn good at it too!***

OK, so you're a Ph.D.  Just don't touch anything.

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