From: David Orban (david@davidorban.com)
Date: Sun Sep 02 2007 - 03:24:41 MDT
On 9/1/07, Mike Dougherty <msd001@gmail.com> wrote:
> I hope there is more conversation on this thread.
There is a nice article about the supercomputing power of botnets in
The Washington Post:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/08/storm_worm_dwarfs_worlds_top_s_1.html
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On 9/1/07, Mike Dougherty <msd001@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/31/07, Matt Mahoney <matmahoney@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I would like to hear your opinions on the threat of early, hard takeoff
>
> > CD, and then connect to an Internet where every computer is infected? Or do
> > you just accept that you can't trust your computer, and just live with it?
>
> I couldn't trust my roommate in college, but I had to live with him.
> It reminds me of Pascal's wager - if computers can become sentient,
> how do we know they aren't already? If I assume that the evil
> sentient machine is going to rape my digital identity, then I'm
> probably paranoid - but what is a healthy balance for paranoia level?
>
> You make a very interesting point. I hope there is more conversation
> on this thread.
>
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