Re: FTC files complaint against "Bogus Computer Scan Software" makers

[Paul Vixie <vixie () isc org>]

rsk () gsp org (Rich Kulawiec) writes:

> ...
>
> The delusional fools who think that law enforcement can or will do
> something meaningful about online abuse may safely be ignored, as they
> are completely out of touch with reality. ...

well, there i am.

>                                           ... The reality is that no
> real help is coming, now or in the future.  There is no value whatsoever
> in including these impotent organizations in planning or discussions: we
> are on our own, as we have always been.

my plans don't involve an endless escalating holding action nor trying to
make the technology less foolprone for the large mass of sheeple using it,
since those proposals both have "LOSE!" writ large all over them.

what has to happen is humanity as a whole has to address this somehow, and
there have to be meatspace consequences for violating property or privacy
rights in our narrow little part of the world.  until then we're all losers
even those of you who are wizardly enough to avoid having these problems or
who can successfully sell the service of protecting others.

> And that's not an entirely bad thing: we have now, as we have always
> had, the collectively ability to deal with problems like this without
> any outside help.  It's our own fault if we have failed to promptly and
> effectively exercise that ability.
>
> ---Rsk

i disagree radically with the assumptions underlying those statements.
-- 
Paul Vixie
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