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Commented on Where we went wrong
I agree with a combination of Dave@58 and Agduk@56. It's not that we got it "wrong" it's a combination of economic driving priorities other than security, sociological issues and the fact that the system is so complicated that security is...
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rpgoldman commented on
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JavaScript: OMG. Your posting led me to try to Do The Right Thing and run Firefox with NoScript. I say again, OMG. Trying to do this on the modern web is a really horrible experience. You get halfway through your interaction with the airline, and it goes tit's up, you finish typing up the comment form, and the Captcha fails, making you start all over (or just give up), gethuman.org doesn't work, and on, and on, and on... This seems like an extremely good illustration of where we really went wrong. Trying to be secure is just too crippling. And...
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Sean Eric Fagan commented on
Where we went wrong
Ironically, your post is now #204, after the post in question got marked as spam....
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Charlie Stross commented on
Where we went wrong
I know The Raven of old, from elsewhere on the net. Doesn't look spammy to me....
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Charlie Stross commented on
Where we went wrong
Sure: but a quote and link to an essay by Professor Lawrence Lessig is not exactly in a class with a random effusion and a link to a clean-your-credit-record/herbal v*gr/network marketing site....
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Sean Eric Fagan commented on
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paws4thot didn't refer to the post by The Raven; there was an obvious spam post that got through and was right after The Raven's post and before paws4thot's post, I marked it as spam, it was no longer here as post #204, and so everyone got confused....
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