[Full-Disclosure] Re: Support the Sasser-author fund started

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Shane C. Hage wrote:

> I do expect that any computer user should have fundamental security training
> before using it.  After all, the computer is a tool.  Nobody should operate
> a microwave or chainsaw without reading the safety instructions.  The same
> care should be taken for computers.

Agreed - but you can read and follow security instructions for a 
microwave in 5 to 10 minutes.

"To ensure that novice users of OpenBSD do not need to become security 
experts overnight (a viewpoint which other vendors seem to have), we 
ship the operating system in a Secure by Default mode..."
http://www.openbsd.org/security.html

regards
i.t

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