[Info-vax] IS everyone waiting?

[Scott Dorsey]

Paul Sture  <nospam at techchat.ch> wrote:
>On 2016-10-21, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org> wrote:
>> In article <nubkvj$l4e$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes:
>>> 
>>> And if a new lock-picking technique is discovered, the lock on your
>>> front door will still do what it always did: protect against the old
>>> lock-picking techniques that no one is using anymore because there is
>>> now a better one available that people who haven't upgraded cannot
>>> defend against.
>>
>>    It's been a long time since I've seen a house with a lock
>>    sophisticated enough to protect against old lockpicking techniques.
>
>The last time I got burgled they bypassed the expensive Chubb locks by
>using a crowbar.

The computer criminals do similar things.  Why break the lock when you can
call the user claiming to be from Microsoft and ask him to run your malware?
--scott
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