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Originally Posted by Dragonlich
I'm certainly not suggesting that someone should physically take away her computer. I am suggesting that she shouldn't have (full) internet access if she can't understand the consequences.
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Well, I still don't see how this has anything whatsoever to do with american national security. It wouls seem to me that as long as all government ans military computer installations, as well as publicly funded systems were all protected, then whatever else happens is moot. who cares if someones mother doesn't have a virus checker and ends up unwittingly sending malicious code here and there.
Besides, I think we're only speaking hypothetically anyway. There is no way that anyone, even the American government, could possibly put in place any type of logistics to accomplish what you are saying. Plus, Microsoft as the maker of the operating system, would also end up being liable in certain cases and there is no way that any pro-business gov't like the republicans would enter that realm.
Nope, the truth is, my mother, and milloins like her, will remain clueless, and the CIA, especially the FORMER CIA management, will not ever inact any form of public compliance of virus or firewall standards.
Now, working from the ISP perspective, there may be room to implement things at that point, but that is the furtherst down the chain such concepts will ever go.
Peace,
Pierre