What Doze needs, right after putative 'Install' is: My Albatross Explorer


As zIWE approaches a quarter-million posts! and I recall \ufffdons of detailed examples of dumbth-inaction, from the workplace on up - and -

In the course of peering-over shoulder of neighbor who is educating self re exactly How her *execrably-malConfigured* out-of-box Doze ""Professional"" XP + equally sucky router setup: expired on her new hP notebook...

(And while debating what to do with the XP-Home remora infesting my new/older hP notebook.. while researching GRUB)


She/I came across this interesting writer-on-Security, his ref to Dick Feynman (on Space Shuttle + lying-with-stats) and -- his take on Monoculture: The Buzzword.


In order -

[link|http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/index.html|http://www.ranum.com...curity/index.html]

[link|http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/feynman.html|http://www.ranum.com...dumb/feynman.html]

[link|http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/monoculture-hype/index.html|http://www.ranum.com...e-hype/index.html]


And...

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security (originally written for certifiedsecuritypro.com)
After years of reading about "this great new idea" or "that new cool technology" I finally realized that there are some anti-smart ideas that are so powerful that they can turn perfectly good ideas into dumb ideas. [link|http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/index.html| Read 'em and weep].

Bon appetit



PS - A preliminary wallow in all the crap left turned ON in the std. XPHome of ~'02 and evidence of similar+worse in ""Pro"" as bundled in 10/05 -- is stunning. And as for ""paid-professional"" router setter-uppers from Geek Squad\ufffd who install Owner's name in passwords, select lowest-encryption option ... and leave the wireless in Broadcast mode: words fail

I shall enjoy attending Small Claims with her, should these suckers fail to refund $$ + some damages, prior to that dance. (She already has a female contact at Geek HQ)

She will have a lovely parsing of the word p r o f e s s i o n a l, along with two levels of technical detail re the omissions and commissions of these wannbe Microsoftie arrogant twerps ... I sorta hope they hang tough; her brevity shall be withering (judges Like it short.) cha cha cha + Fun.