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Trademarks and their limits

Trademarks and their limits

Posted Feb 7, 2013 12:48 UTC (Thu) by ortalo (subscriber, #4654)
In reply to: Trademarks and their limits by sorpigal
Parent article: Trademarks and their limits

It's not wise to think that all victims are stupid.

Some are just different: children, elders or simply vulnerable due to external reasons. Theey deserve better protection and certainly a different set of information than us hackers.

But nethertheless, I intend to benefit too from an occasional automated security survey because I am sure I can find an attacker smarter than me. Don't you?


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Trademarks and their limits

Posted Feb 7, 2013 12:56 UTC (Thu) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]

> But nethertheless, I intend to benefit too from an occasional automated security survey because I am sure I can find an attacker smarter than me.
For the people who proactively install, run and heed the reports from such tools there is no problem. It's the people who won't install it, won't run it or won't read the reports that you can't do anything about. For them prevention is out the window, recovery afterwards is all you can strive for.

Trademarks and their limits

Posted Feb 8, 2013 16:44 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

It's not wise to think that all victims are stupid.

Some are just different: children, elders or simply vulnerable due to external reasons.

Those are all just kinds of stupid.

A better point to make would be 1) you can fix a problem caused by stupidity; or 2) a person doesn't deserve to be a victim because he is stupid.

Trademarks and their limits

Posted Feb 8, 2013 16:45 UTC (Fri) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

It's not wise to think that all victims are stupid.

Everyone's stupid some of the time. More usefully: "It's not wise to think that all victims were being stupid."

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