On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com> wrote:
service being cut off. However it is ignorance and lack of maintenance that makes viruses and botnets so prevelant that it may just be time to bite the bullet and force users to learn how to maintain their machines.
because this works so well with: 1) cars 2) home-security 3) personal security wandering around cities/towns I note that I'm not particularly against any of the proposal, just the 'people need a drivers license to get on the interwebz'... it's been tried many times before, always without success. I would also point out that Qwest does this walled-garden approach for their customers (have been for at least 5 years now? DonS@qwest could clarify) and they've seen success with it. Aliant in .ca also has some fairly aggressive anti-malware works installed. There are places where this sort of thing works well, planned and engineered properly. I think Qwest, at least, made some of their reasoning and design/goals publicly available for a time as well. -Chris