June 25, 2002
pparently,
my control-C doens't always work as promised, and I was too tired to see
that I'd pasted the wrong link yesterday morning, but within minutes of
getting to work, I had email from both my brother, who you can find here,
and Dave, who you can find here,
gently reminding me why I have the honor of being called a goober. I'm
sorry... and I've fixed the offending links :) I'm still a bit tired this
morning, but at least there wasn't the two car alarm wake up call at 5AM
like there was yesterday!
I've been mulling over the link I found over on Bear's site, and the more I think about it, the more I agree with this. There is a tenuous line between information we need to publish, and information we don't, and I'm afraid that sometimes our media loses (or, if you're from the X generation, looses) sight of what is correct, and worth putting out there, and what isn't really information that needs to be distributed. The simple fact is that there are peices of information that don't need to be said. Things like "gee, Bruce, you're going bald" isn't really necessary to be published. I know I am, you know I am, anyone who sees me knows I am, but publishing it only hurts me emotionally, and doesn't really serve a purpose of educating people. The same goes for vulnerabilities in defenses. We know they're there, if people want to tell the appropriate people who can fix the problem, that is fine, but just publishing it in a national media outlet for the people who are trying to hurt us to read just doesn't make sense. There really isn't a need to make this easier for "evil-doers" as President Bush would say. Let's make it harder for them, and keep those vulnerabilities out of the media, and feed them to people who can fix them. Sheesh... it is like there are thousands of media folks out there who are doing the research for the terrorists. What a great bonus!
I've ordered myself a new TV... but it is next year's model, and I don't know when it may be coming in. Now, I'm playing the waiting game....