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[ale] Big Brother announces all out assault on our Internet
- Subject: [ale] Big Brother announces all out assault on our Internet
- From: pete.hardie at gmail.com (Pete Hardie)
- Date: Sun Dec 12 10:31:08 2004
- In-reply-to: <1102862787.2785.3.camel@blue>
- References: <[email protected]> <1102797385.6315.10.camel@blue> <[email protected]> <1102862787.2785.3.camel@blue>
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 09:46:27 -0500, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 23:03 -0500, Pete Hardie wrote:
>
> > Does that make AOL a terrorist organization? They've let more stupid
> > people on the Internet than anythig else in the past 20 years.
>
> I would say not. AOL has lead the pack (along w/ many other large ISPs)
> in assisting their users to secure their home computers, port blocking,
> etc. The problem areas clearly are universities that allow any virus
> ridden computer to be hooked up to a VERY high speed network.
Recently they have, but I was speaking more of "The September That
Never Ended" when AOL allowed millions of newbies onto the Internet
without any preparation.
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