Computer "health certificate" plan indistinguishable from Denial Of Service attack.

Michael P. Soulier msoulier at digitaltorque.ca
Thu Oct 7 08:10:01 EDT 2010


On 06/10/10 Ray Dillinger said:

> It is hard to count the number of untestable and/or flat out wrong
> assumptions built into this idea, and harder still to enumerate all the
> ways it could go wrong.

My wife runs Clamwin AV on her windows XP box and it's always complaining that
she doesn't have antivirus installed. No, she has better AV installed.

I'd love to know how they plan to validate my Linux boxes.

But then, that's likely part of the plan.

mps
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