Microsoft has proposed a model where PCs that are not physically fit, are prevented from connecting to the Internet. What do you think about this proposal and how likely do you think it is that this model will be adopted anytime soon?
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If you think about what this proposal is saying logically, it is saying that you can not be connected to the Internet with an infected computer. I do not whole-heartedly agree. The Internet is the digital outside. Kind of like leaving your home and going outside. God forbid you get infected with something contagious and are told u can not be outside or in public. A lot of us still go to work sick because we can not afford to miss work. Likewise, someone may connect their infected computer either knowingly or otherwise due to lacking the ability to get it cleaned or hoping it will just go away.
Further reading can be found here. I especially like the reader comments located at the bottom.
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2010/10/05/the-need-for-global-collective-defense-on-the-internet.aspx
Thanks for the links – My heart is warmed to read the comments of users who understand the privacy implications of these proposals.
…glad to do it. I enjoy the blog btw, it is the only Internet blog where I draft up comments. Maybe I am biased due to being a student here. The Capella IAS blog posts keep me pensive on important and current IAS issues.
Tell your friends…. the more the merrier
I love it when a vendor makes statements like this without putting forth many details on how such a system would work, or what the requirements would be to make it work. Coming from Microsoft, I really have to wonder if they are looking beyond computers running Windows. How would Mac, Linux and BSD users be impacted by this? What about smart phones?
An article like this really leaves more questions than answers. I’d like to see a comprehensive, cross-platform system that would enable something like this to happen. Of course, even if such a beast existed how would we get the end-users to buy into it? We all know what happened with Vista when people were pushed into not running as an administrator all the time. Can we say backlash?
I watch a lot of 24 hour news channels and there is one that repeats endlessly that they are ‘keeping them honest’….. what always pops into my mind is ‘and who is keeping you honest’…. I tend to feel the same way about these large scale, heavy handed proposals for ‘managing’ the Internet…. who do we trust enough to set the criteria and do the interpretation and enforcement of that criteria?
Microsoft has a history of releasing bug riddled programs. I suspect if this program were produced by the Gates team it would ultimately block every computer (infected or not) off the ‘net because of its poor programming.
First of all I do not believe MS has the right to act as an authority to decide on who can use the WWW. Additionally, MS should focus on making it’s OS and other applications more secure.
Focus on preventing it’s vulnerabilities instead of punishing those who use their OS. How about adding virus protection to its OS, which functionally it should do anyway.
So hopefully consumers will respond by changing away from their monitored MS OS to Linux or MAC.
Now we need a true Google OS to blow MS out of the water.
A big denial of service against themselves! YIKES – Now that would be embarrassing…