Sunday, June 06, 2004
The luxury of having computer security problems
This post will be off-topic.
It is good that we live in a world where we have to worry constantly about the safety of our Internet-connected PCs. It is good to live in a world where an identity theft can ruin your credit.
We have time to worry about our computers because we're not facing death squads or machine gun fire.
60 years ago more than 100,000 teenagers like the high school graduate next door ran into machine gun fire and minefields to free Europe from a vicious and dangerous tyranny. They and all their comrades didn't know how it would turn out. Western Europe, maybe even the USA, might have fallen under a regime of terror and hate to this day.
Many of those soldiers are still alive today. They deserve a thought, and our thanks.
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It is good that we live in a world where we have to worry constantly about the safety of our Internet-connected PCs. It is good to live in a world where an identity theft can ruin your credit.
We have time to worry about our computers because we're not facing death squads or machine gun fire.
60 years ago more than 100,000 teenagers like the high school graduate next door ran into machine gun fire and minefields to free Europe from a vicious and dangerous tyranny. They and all their comrades didn't know how it would turn out. Western Europe, maybe even the USA, might have fallen under a regime of terror and hate to this day.
Many of those soldiers are still alive today. They deserve a thought, and our thanks.
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