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Subject: IP: so now systems will be *required* to be vulnerable?????

From: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
To: ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 17:23:42 -0500

Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 17:08:20 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike O'Dell" <mo@ccr.org>
To: dave@farber.net

i find this quote particularly upsetting:

        Outside experts cautioned that disabling the affected
        Windows XP features would threaten to render unusable
        an entire category of high-tech devices about to go
        on the market, such as a new class of computer printers
        that are easier to set up.

so without discussing it with anyone but themselves and their
beholden, Microsoft has created an entire new industry dependent
on virus-based technology???

this is simply monstrous!  what kind of abomination must
Microsoft commit before being called to task for its behavior?

How can this not be considered aiding and abetting cyber-terrorism?

        -mo


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