1 Sep
2008
1 Sep
'08
12:32 p.m.
On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:33:21 EDT, "Steven M. Bellovin" said:
On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:08:20 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
a) There exist providers that are willing to take money from scum. b) We won't get rid of the scum until we admit (a) is true.
I mostly agree with you -- but I get very worried about who defines "scum". Consider the following cases, which I will assert are not very far-fetched:
For the sake of discussion, I was calling "scum" "any entity that your morals say you shouldn't accept money from, but your accountant says you should".... What that makes your accountant... is another discussion entirely :) However, I *do* agree with the problem of "scum with politico-economic leverage"....