FBI-virus software cracks encryption wall

[Bill Frantz]

At 8:54 AM -0800 11/27/01, Gilles Gravier wrote:
>Oh... FBI thing... so do they expect to have a version working for
>Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris (had to name that one), Mac, Palm,
>BeOS (OK... they're dead)... and who knows what else?
>
>If they only cover Windoze (which is likely) the result will be that
>the criminal / paranoid / privacy freak / hacker community will just
>plain migrate to another OS... Which would be good for the world,
>don't you think?

There are a lot of interesting parallels between biological systems and
computer systems.  One of them is that a virus can spread like wildfire in
a monoculture.  Diversity is good for both kinds of systems.

Cheers - Bill


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