Well, as MS is the primary target of virus’, trojans, malware, etc etc etc thanks to their security holes, and an inability to identify many such problems in a timely basis, do they really think Mom, Pop, and little Kenny and Jenny are going to brand new identify virus’ on their machines?
We let anyone with aids into the US and when they are here they are free to roam.
“Sick” PCs could also be defined as those spreading the “wrong” opinions.
This is the one of the reasons why I have for buying a Mac, CONCERN about computer viruses.
The quarantine model was abandoned when a certain preferred social group became the main carriers of a certain deadly disease in the 1980s.
Sounds reasonable. Don’t ISP’s do that already?
A straight-forward admission that they don’t know how to fix the problem, isn’t it?
The core of the problem is the “computer in every home” business model. A very large percentage of the public lack the skills/common sense to be responsible for maintaining a computer system. I wouldn’t be surprised to see online access moving towards delivery via IPTV systems in the future. Which brings up the analogy:
When people who don’t understand what the “Input” button on their television is for are put in charge of maintaining a computer, is it any wonder so many computers are infected?
Microsoft itself has circulated infected signoff materials (.DOC files with prank macros) to companies. Microsoft itself is guilty of spreading viruses.
Microsoft itself requires users to either "download" the patches directly to affected machines or wait for a CD with the patches to be mailed.
Why can't users just download ALL of the files to one system and then transfer them?
“The proposal is based on lessons from public health,...”
I guess he is talking about controllable plagues like AIDS.
Of course, most fixes for viruses are on the Internet.
This doesn’t sound very PC. Infected PCs need the net so they heal themselves. How can it be beneficial to the PC community as a whole to segregate those most in need.
My company just kicks off the Domain.
Uh, but then that would mean 90% of all home microsoft-based PCs would have to be disconnected, and then since they were disconnected, there would be no way to fix them.
Brilliant plan, Microsoft! First, make a family of operating systems that are such a horrific mess internally that they are literally impossible to secure, Second, create the solution, namely, don’t use PCs with your impossible-to-secure operating system for anything except playing solitaire. Poetically symmetric, don’t you think?
Death Panels for computers and the Internet??????
Agreed.
This doesn’t sound very PC. Infected PCs need the net so they heal themselves. How can it be beneficial to the PC community as a whole to segregate those most in need.
My company just kicks off the Domain.
Very courageous. "Everybody who buys our products, no more internet for you! Here are Apple and Red Hat's phone numbers..."
Yep - ban all Windows machines.
Go Mac
(Donning flame suit while ducking and running quickly)