Dencandy Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 Can anyone put this article (written in Post-modernist Computerese Gobbledekook) from BBC Technology into plain English? It seems to be advising us not to rely on ready-made "closed" systems for internet security, (like Windows Defender, for example, which doesn't tell us what it is doing) but to put together our own ready-made systems from different resources which can give us far more control over what information is being sent back to various 'Big Brothers'.I'd appreciate other' views. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 I too, would be interested in a translation. By the way, you mentioned Windows defender. Many of us have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of space. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 It seems to me that he is saying that, like an awful lot of things that have initially been useful and popular, computers and their spin offs and "attachments", will eventually become a means of "population control". Like TV and Radio (advertising), personal transport (tax). Remotely operated speed cameras and survaillance cameras are simple examples of what the man is talking about.edit:-The NUlabour obsession with data gathering is a beautiful example of what the man is talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dencandy Posted April 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 By the way, you mentioned Windows defender. Many of us have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of space. :lol:Yes, I agree. I replaced it with other anti-malware products some time ago. Apart fro anything else, how can MS call it Defender when their Firewall only works 1-way? Unsecured Windows is a leaking sieve, and sieves allow water to flow both ways, not just one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 By the way, you mentioned Windows defender. Many of us have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of space. :lol:Yes, I agree. I replaced it with other anti-malware products some time ago. Apart fro anything else, how can MS call it Defender when their Firewall only works 1-way? Unsecured Windows is a leaking sieve, and sieves allow water to flow both ways, not just one. I don't have any water in my computer or sieves. It is air cooled. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 I don't have any water in my computer or sieves. It is air cooled. :lol:How about fires. Does the firewall keep them out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted April 26, 2008 Report Share Posted April 26, 2008 I don't have any water in my computer or sieves. It is air cooled. :lol:How about fires. Does the firewall keep them out?I always thought that that is what it is meant to do. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dencandy Posted April 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2008 I don't have any water in my computer or sieves. It is air cooled. :lol:How about fires. Does the firewall keep them out?I always thought that that is what it is meant to do. :lol: Does that mean I can get rid of my firewall and antivirus and just have a box of matches and a bucket of water next to my computer? It'll save all that updating hassle. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted April 26, 2008 Report Share Posted April 26, 2008 I don't have any water in my computer or sieves. It is air cooled. :lol:How about fires. Does the firewall keep them out?I always thought that that is what it is meant to do. :lol: Does that mean I can get rid of my firewall and antivirus and just have a box of matches and a bucket of water next to my computer? It'll save all that updating hassle. :DI am not going to mention CCleaner. We don't want to get Brown involved in this as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dencandy Posted April 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2008 I am not going to mention CCleaner. We don't want to get Brown involved in this as well. Hilarious!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted April 27, 2008 Report Share Posted April 27, 2008 I don't have any water in my computer or sieves. It is air cooled. :lol:How about fires. Does the firewall keep them out?I always thought that that is what it is meant to do. :lol: Does that mean I can get rid of my firewall and antivirus and just have a box of matches and a bucket of water next to my computer? It'll save all that updating hassle. :D I am not going to mention CCleaner. We don't want to get Brown involved in this as well.Like it. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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