At 10:47 PM 9/5/00 -0400, Dan Geer wrote:
> I can tell people never to accept
>an executable mailed to them from anywhere, which will get
>laughed at by all the people in the business world who...
[...who are digging their own graves if they routinely run programs
mailed to them, whether or not they laugh at you now.
On the positive side, I think my folks see my cautions as less paranoid
after they got a virus. Similarly with industry and DDoS attacks, or
snarfing credit cards via buffer overflow. Nothing like a publicized
catastrophe to increase public awareness, and eventually, vigilance.]
dh
