Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 10:45:55PM +0530, Ramanraj K wrote:
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>>medium where it is possible to build fortresses that can never fall, and
>>cars that can never be stolen. It is a pain to see people being charged
>>and convicted, and there should be no scope for that atleast on the
>>Internet and WWW.
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> that used to apply maybe 10..15 years back - the internet is not all
> academics and geeks now, and you have organized criminal gangs
abusing it
> (no, I'm not joking - tracking spam and net abuse is what I do for a
living,
> as you know)
The ~8 char login/pwd that was good 10-15 years back, and which is still
suitable for academics to share free info on the internet, is obviously
not suitable for securing transactions involving banks, private
correspondence, etc. Fixing that will discourage abuse.
