Comments on: CAN-SPAM

By: Matt Brown

Matt Brown — Sat, 03 Apr 2004 00:46:18 +0000

Wait. Now that I’m thinking about it, I’m sure that’s an April Fool’s thing, too. I’ve been had!

By: Matt Brown

Matt Brown — Sat, 03 Apr 2004 00:43:33 +0000

I can’t find anywhere in the linked article where it says they are switching to Mac. Have you got a link on that?

By: clew

clew — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 20:40:33 +0000

The deeply sneaky encourage others to switch to ensure a good resale price for the system they’re about to abandon.

By: Keith M Ellis

Keith M Ellis — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:05:45 +0000

Using a minority or obscure computing platform as a means of security is effective. However, it nevertheless is a form of “security through obscurity”, a strategy that experts rightly denigrate. It’s true that the Windows platform has some inherent security vulnerabilities that others do not. But I think this is generally overstated relative to the fact that its ubiquity simply makes it the target of choice. From this perspective, switching to a minority platform for security reasons is sort of a prisoner’s dilemma—it only works if most everyone else is playing fair. It’s certainly not in a switcher’s interests to encourage other people to switch.

By: keef

keef — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:40:52 +0000

Gee, what’s the date on that “can-spam” project? MailBITS/01-Apr-04 Ah, April First. Don’t think that “can-spam” thing will ever make this list K