[ale] Big Brother announces all out assault on our Internet

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Sun Dec 12 10:31:08 EST 2004


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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