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Source link: http://blog.mises.org/4584/department-of-computer-security-its-a-joke/

Department of Computer Security? It’s a Joke

January 20, 2006 by

If you want to make a geek laugh derisively, suggest that responsibility for computer security be turned over to the government. This reaction is guaranteed, regardless of ideology. Geeks know that this is not possible, but rarely are the implications for political economy noted. For 400 years, we’ve been told that only the state can care for us. There are a thousand rationales why intellectuals have believed this, but none of them seem very robust by comparison to the experience of our times. FULL ARTICLE

{ 53 comments }

Dewaine January 25, 2006 at 12:18 am

Computer Security! From the same people who brought you Social Security.

What more can be said?

anarkhos January 25, 2006 at 9:15 pm

Mac users are mostly unaware of the issue. Windows users turn purple at the mere mention of it, demanding capital punishment for malicious coders.

Unfortunately, the reason the market hasn’t responded to the problem by buying Macs is cultural.

It reminds me of a passage from an anti-UNIX book, likening the UNIX phenonenon as living in East Africa, covered with flies, and maligned with various curable diseases unaware that life could be any better.

Life is a lot better, on a Mac ;)

computer October 5, 2006 at 12:43 pm

best site
http://www.computers-guide.co

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