Re: Monday's C'dale meeting topic

[Nate Reindl <fiction@sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:44:32PM +0000, mike808@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> You're misunderstanding the situation. They don't need protection or
> "security" of the kind you're selling.

No?  Call them stupid and lazy, then.

> They are in complete control of *their* equipment. They *decided* exactly
> how much "security" to put into their networks. They aren't *trying* to keep
> people out. They're *advertising* where they are and that they are providing
> network access for all!

Oh.  Wait.  That's called PROVIDING FREE INFORMATION TO EVERYONE.  It's
a socialistic and communistic tactic.

However, I'm damned certain that there are people running private
networks that they'd rather not have open to others...

> They're forming the foundations of a new Internet, aka "The Mesh".

a.k.a. ``The Microwave''

Read an earlier post I made today on another thread to get this.

> You need to think more like a Californian, dewd.

See, I could put something political here, but I won't; it'd be way too
much effort to push around a rather moot point on a mailing list not
established for it while knowing that there are more conservative
subscribers than there are liberal, which means I could offend someone
in the process without meaning to because of how high-strung people have
become nowadays while commercialization and capitalism took their tolls
upon the populace.

I don't want that to happen [any more than it already has].  And, yes,
that is only one sentence.

.f

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