full-disclosure - [OFFTOPIC] Zone Alarm

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Message-ID: <200306052117.h55LHHU9014090@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: [OFFTOPIC] Zone Alarm 

On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 08:49:20 PDT, "Robert J. Liebsch" said:

> The users bought a computer, they bought broadband. Is it too much to expect
> that they drop some cash to protect their investment. They don't have to
> understand HOW it works, only that it does.

The users bought a car.  Is it too much to expect that they drop some cash
to buy bumpers, seat belts, and air bags to protect their investment?  They
don't have understand HOW those work(*), only that it does.

Like it or not, the computer industry has collectively avoided any sort of
liability - in most other industries, selling something so deficient that
there's a *market* for the equivalent of ZoneAlarm would get you sued to
your skivvies quite quickly.  Cars come with safety features, electrical
devices carry a UL sticker, and so on.

(*) Quick, off the top of your head, do YOU know how the accelerometers
keep from false-positiving and deploying the air bag, or even what makes the
seat belts usually move freely but lock up when needed?
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